Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

The spirit of Adam, when it was first commanded to enter the strange existence of the humanly body was scared and feared for the tasks it was entrusted with. Though it craved for desire and knowledge of the unknown. Thus it was said “Unwillingly shall you enter and unwilling shall you depart the humanly body”. Every sole shall taste death, yet it’s trembles the thought of it. However, those Muslims who have submitted to Allah’s will, neither asks for it nor fears it, for he banks his life to Allah and spend all he can in modesty.

Only the heart can remember what the mind know not. So let the tale of Suleiman the King, the strongest and the wisest ruler that the earth has seen and ever will see, be of an enlightenment. Suleiman commanded the wind, men and Jinn, birds and the animals. All were serving to him, yet its not wealth or power or wisdom but the grace of Allah that bring forth enlightenment of the nur.

Tale of Suleiman the King

While Suleiman was admiring the beauty of his garden, he show the Angel of Death, Azrael. Suleiman was familiar with Azrael, for the deaths in the battle fields and the wounded are a familiar sight. “So what brought you here, Azrael?” asked Suleiman. “I bring the news of two of your elite commanders will soon depart this world, Elihoreph and Alijah”.

Suleiman loved them like brothers, so was worried of the news and ordered an Efrith to carry them to the mythical city of Luz, a place where Azrael was forbidden to enter. Instantly the Jinn carried the order but both the commanders died few miles away from Luz.

The next day, Azrael materialized before Suleiman with a sense of gratitude and understanding and said “I am grateful to thee, O King Suleiman, for assisting thy commanders to the place of their death. It was destined that their life should be taken to the next world near that far away city of Luz, but I was wondering how would they travel such a long distance”.

Suleiman the King, was both sadden and furious at the lost of his two elite commanders and the inevitable fate of man. Azrael was troubled by this and asked “Why do you grieve, O, King Suleiman?” Suleiman said, “Why not, for I have lost two of my brotherly friends”. Azrael, disregarded the saying with defiantly and said “You grieve over the loss of your brothers, here the misery is only for yourself, and your anger is nothing but self-pride. Thus, it has beclouded your wisdom. Death is a divine reward from Allah, purifying one from this illusion of euphorias and agonies, which is only a simple drop for the soul. Of such drops, O King, the soul shall be showered with unimaginable Seas. Be thankful to your creator, Allah that I, Azrael, the Angel of Death, is in reality the Angel of Grace for those who are ready”.

Why have you forgotten the pure state, before your creation into this earthly world? Why can’t you remember? Let the story of Moses, call, for those on the path, to those memories. Do you fear of the unknown? If you do, than you do not yet listen with the ear of acceptance, but listen, so perhaps you may be led to the path of the heart, on which the money and wealth of this world will not buy you even an atom of nur. Your worldly self will always fear, what if you fall into worldly poverty! The generous heart always has enough to give. It is the miserly in spirit who believe they never have enough to be generous. It is not lack of possessions that leads to spiritual poverty, nor prayer and fasting by themselves. It is in the abandonment of self-absorption, and in constant remembrance and reflection that the heart becomes detached. Then the hands gladly open their gasp on worldly things and cling to Allah. Alas, like Moses, you are blind to the worth of true charity. Your thoughts are still so self-centric that there is no room for anything else to enter.

The Story of Moses!
Moses isolated into the desert and prayed, calling for Allah. “O Lord, I have submitted myself to Thy for all this long, I wish to meet to further strengthen my belief. Wilt Thou not come and break bread in my house?” And Allah was easy with the request, so Moses got a reply: “Alright, Verily! Unquestionably thou hast been a devoted slave of mine, and thus tonight, I shall break bread in thy dwelling!” Moses was pleasantly surprised for this benediction, and hastened for home, instructed his folks to arrange for a festival and prepare the greatest of spread befitting the Lord. When everything was ready and the supper time approached, Moses dressed in his finest cloths impatiently prepared himself to greet, outside the door. Many people moved about with their life, some heading back to home after a days work and each and everyone of them greeted Moses with respect on passing. Moses rashly returned each and every greeting, until an old beggar walked up to him and said. “Moses, would you not share a bit of thy blessings to the less fortunate? Humbly I ask!”, Moses replied kindheartedly, “Sure, but can you come a little bit later as I await a very important visitor tonight!”

The beggar went on and Moses kept waiting. All throughout the night Moses waited but the Lord never seems to turn up. Moses was filled with a great sorrow and cried at the very thought that Lord has forsaken him. At sunrise, Moses, again isolated back in the desert, while moaning, prayed again. “My Lord!, how have I annoyed Thee, that thou broke thy promise?” “O Moses”, replied the Lord, “I was the beggar, who asked to share a bit of thy blessings, but thou bid depart him. Know this, I am with all the Creations, how you treat and share on charity for the least of my creations, is how you treat and share with Me!”

Though we have not met, my tails would give u that eccentric familiarity about me. You may even tend to feel sumpatheia for me, a sudden urge of bleed for the hard life still left to my bones. Do my prayers ever get answered? I can assure you, yes they do, every day and night, every single minute of my life. But I ask none for me, so they are very light prayers in need, descending of the nur, like drizzling for a sweet chill. For your eyes, I am a faqir, one who has attained the detachment of sakina, that tranquility of heart that comes only as a slave of Allah with a total submission. So, yes, I forgive you. When you have learned to look with your heart, your eyes will not deceive you! So, let me toss a coin into your bowl of life, the less I am burdened by my possessions, the lighter will be the anchor of my self-indulgent naffs!

The sea had calmed and I could see the stars in the moonlit sky. Surprisingly I felt nothing, though there is no hope for tomorrow. Thoughts were at peace and free as the wide open space. The hopelessness and misery that touched me was drained, eased off with the strength of my body, the struggled days and nights of lost at sea. I got no words to convey it. Perhaps this is sakina, that peace of mind and heart, resulted with total submission to the will of Allah, or perhaps I was insane, disarranged by the pain and hunger, but as I eased in it, I worried none, nor of today, nor of tomorrow, nor any brute, nor death. Blank and thoughtless, I let myself be carried away without any anticipation or light into sunup.

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As you develop your application, changes to the database need to be managed in a consistent and easy manner, especially in a team environment where different people bring in different changes and this can get extremely difficult at times. Backup and restore enables you to share and co-ordinate database changes as well as data in a manageable fashion distributed using git itself, hence significantly removing the complexity of handling these changes (no more phpmyadmin for database updates). We have used backup and restore Plugin in production environments with multiple backups and for database roll-outs for fast deployments, without any hiccups. However, in the event we have missed a scenario we cannot be held responsible for any data loss, use this at your own risk. Said that we would love to fix any bug found by you!

Enough words, here is the link:

https://github.com/Maldicore/Backups

The Youtube Downloader Script has been hosted in GitHub and this time it is to be available in different languages, well, as much as the time I have, I will port this simple script to all languages that I know. Just a fun project to brush-up my language skills.

Current new feature includes Fetch Different Quality/File Type Video URL from youtube website and Prompt for Quality & FileType that you desire to download. Though it is planned to be ported to different languages currently only Ruby version is completed. Anyways here is the link for the source files.

https://github.com/yusuf/YouTubeScripts

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