Week 1 Post

Posted by: bounthcy on: January 24, 2012

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So, I wasn’t able to attend class last week because I had to have surgery; honest. However, my roommate, also in the class, told me how you watched Mr. Bollywood in My Name is Khan. Having already seen this movie (opening night, mind you) I suppose it makes sense that this movie was screened in the first week of class to show the varying public reaction to a post 9/11 United States. Having moved to the U.S 5 to 7 years after the tragedy I didn’t really know the extent of the prejudice and hardships that many Muslims had to endure during and after that time, so the movie helped to gauge the scope of what people went through in the aftermath.

Being born and raised in a predominantly Muslim country I grew up acknowledging “God” as “Allah” and never really gave the thought that one of the most amazing qualities of God is that although He is recognized by so many different names He is the same God that everyone believes in. Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah in his article “One God, Many Names” definitely brings home the fact that no matter the name with which we refer to Him, we believe in the same entity and that the name does not diminish His glory.

Growing up my parents always told me that there were no such things as ghosts. In Islam there might not be the concept of ghosts but there is the belief that jinns exist simultaneously with humans. It’s always amazed and terrified me that jinns exist and even though people always say that jinns don’t come to places where humans are present, there are a lot of people who also claim that they have seen jinns. These claims by people then bring to mind the question, what person do jinns deem important enough to appear in front of?

Lollipopsgumdropsandsunshine’s post about the existence of aliens is definitely something to think about. Are we really the only race that God has chosen to test? Or are we only one in a mass of experiments and tests taking place. I specifically like the authors assertion that “in the Quran, God is referred to as “Lord of the Universes”, so that must mean that there are multiple universes, ours is just the one in which us humans reside” because it does make me wonder whether there are other beings in the other Universes.