Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Isaac and Abraham

The story of Abraham and Isaac goes that God wanted Abraham to commit the ultimate sacrifice in the name of God to prove his faith - to sacrifice his son Isaac. He took his son up to the mountain and laid him down and just as he was about to commit the sacrifice, God told him to stop and said that he has proved his faith and now must only sacrifice a Goat.

I think while this may be an extreme it proves the ultimate testament to God and it stands as an archetype of the meaning of having faith. In my religion we have Eid al Adha which is when we celebrate this as the ultimate sacrifice and Muslims have a huge feast where the sacrifice goats.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013



Many years ago, the human were trying to get to the sky and reach God. They couldn't fly, so they decided to build a tower. God saw them and he was angry, so he invented the languages so nobody could understand each other and they couldn't finish the tower.

I speak English, Urdu, and Pashto at Home and I can read Arabic as part of my religion. What I have learned over the years is that If i dont take an interest in a language I will not be able to learn it at all. Take Spanish for example, since middle school I wanted to learn French, but my mom told me Spanish would be more beneficial for medicine and so I was compliant and as a result, Spanish has always been my worst subject since the beginning of high school. In comparison, I wanted to learn punjabi and was actually interested in it, so I spent a summer doing the rosetta stone version and learned it almost immediately because I struck up an interest in it.