You cannot put a price tag on knowledge ... The first line that Allah passes to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. through his intermediary Jibrail is the first verse of the Surah Al-Alaq, which as per quran.com translates to:
Recite in the name of your Lord who created—
As Muslims, it is requisite for us to seek knowledge and understand it and use it for the benefit of not just Muslims but all mankind ... Thus, that is why the first Surah that one should learn if he/she has received the 'hidayah' from Allah is the Surah Al-Alaq ... 'Recite' – meaning not only to read, but read what you have and pass it on to others ...
I suppose my love for knowledge comes from Allah, like everything else ... But, I have one too many books in my room, and I have decided to pass on the knowledge containing in them to others who are just as curious as I am ...
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| If you can read it, it basically underlines what I have always been saying about the kind of censorship practised in this country of mine ... Anyway, this excerpt is taken from– |
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| A page turner this is not ... BIN! |
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| A page turner this is not ... BIN! |
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| Along with the first two, I thought they would help with the postgraduate studies in Mass Comm that I was supposed to do while I was in Japan ... Yeah, that all went to shit ... BIN! |
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| I was fascinated for a while with advertising and copywriting ... BIN! |
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| Took this test without even reading anything in the book, which is– |
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| Still fascinated with this subject ... KEEP! |
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| Was trying to understand what Faith is all about, but in the end, this book did not really help me to understand it ... BIN! |
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| Might be useful for future writing projects ... KEEP! |
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| Only read it once, enjoyed it, got some funny bits ... BIN! |
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| Only managed to read halfway through ... Fascinated with Fry's friendship with Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson ... Only reason I decided to read this was because I thoroughly enjoyed The Liar, from which I learned of another novel I might put on order: Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs ... BIN! Sorry, Mr Fry ... |
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| Trying to learn the Qur'an from a Western perspective ... Still deciding whether this is not Western propaganda ... KEEP, but with the intention of binning it if it's full of crap I don't agree with ... |
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| Always have been fascinated with the Universe, but a page turner this is not ... BIN! |
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| Another subject I'm fascinated with ... Thank God you only need 30 second to understand every key economic theory ... KEEP! |
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| For goodness' sake, why can't it be Shrodinger's Spider? It makes more allterative sense and I hate spiders! Why does it have to be a cat! Taken from– |
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| KEEP! |
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| KEEP! |
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| Still don't understand large parts of it, but at least it's much more digestible than the Film Studies and Media Studies readers ... KEEP! |
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| Has helped me much in understanding my mental health issue ... KEEP! |
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| I was too embarrassed to carry this book around in public as I was still kind of an ignoramus back then and the words 'mental illness' still feel like it was a stigma ... But, this was my first book to understanding my mental health issue, and now I have come up with my first fiction on how best to understand it ... KEEP! |
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| Bought this sometime in '93 ... Keeping it for nostalgia's stake, and to remind myself that Windows used to be a lot simpler and easier to use ... |
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| For my next writing project, God-willing ... KEEP! |
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