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flower



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:10 am    Post subject: What if....? Reply with quote

Hi all,

What if you had only 24 hours to live, what would you do? Laughing Shocked Crying or Very sad
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hala79



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hellow my flower Smile

No bady answered u, but i will answer u strongly that:

If i have only 24 hours for death i will be so sad and afraid i will pray for Allah alot each moment and i will cry too much, i will remember all the bad moments in my life as well as the beautiful ones, i will remember all my sins and i will regret too much i will wish if Allah give me another chance to do a lot of charities.

Finally, i will farwell my familly, anf my fiance Crying or Very sad i will hug him a long hug Crying or Very sad - oh bad imagination. then i will died and i will move to a new life. i pray ti GOD to be the beast for all Muslems Smile
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emirates soul



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

fist thing i will pray>>and i will read alot of holy quraan
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Bob S.



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm with Emirates on that. First thing, start praying a lot. If I'm dying in a hospital, there's probably not much more I could do. Write a last will and testiment, buy lots of insurance, and pay off some debts so my wife won't be left with a heavy burden.
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emirates soul



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks all...
i want to say something ...
Allah don't want alot from us....
he gives us alot of things life,haapiness,food,family,home,chlidren,yoth,day ,night,rain,.....etc and alot of things we can not count...if i set writing from today untill three years i will not finish...
Allah is so great.........


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emirates soul



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

excuseme bob s....
may i ask you a question???


are you muslim???
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Bob S.



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, not Muslim. I am Christian.
Though I think your idea is correct: if you truly have faith that there is a Creator (by whatever name we call Him) and your soul will soon be going to meet your Creator, then it is wise to make your soul right with Him before you must face your ultimate judge.
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Bob S.



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is a non sequitur. The question is not "is there a God". My response and agreement with Emirates was with a caveat: IF you believe there is a supreme being and IF you believe you have a soul that is answerable to this supreme being, THEN it is wise to get your soul (that you believe you have) right before meeting Him. Ergo, obviously, if you do not believe in any Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, SpongeBob, Cthulhu, or whatever, and you think we are the product of pure chance in an uncaring universe, then it would be horribly intellectually dishonest of you to start some deathbed conversion and pray to one or the other.

So, in 24 hours, you are going to be gone forever (the details of the situation, whether disease, timebomb, or killer asteroid, are not specified). What do you do?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr.Admiral wrote:
I think it's never dishonest to say one's opinion,

So do I. I was saying, it is dishonest to start praying to God when you are dying if you do not believe in God in your life. But that is a hypothetical "you"; not you, Mr. Admiral, specifically. Therefore I think you, specifically, would not do such a thing (start praying) since you do not believe in any god.

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If we are talking about destiny or other vague things, then it is not right to slip into a supervisor's view, so I didn't say anything against you.

Oh?
So when you said:
Mr.Admiral wrote:
Sorry, but I think that God is only an excuse of the religious people to make the (profit-extreme) people do good things.

you did not think that people of sincere faith (several billion people on the planet) might be offended by that?

Anyway, as you come from Europe, I think it is safe to assume that you have not met any person under the age of 60 who has a sincere belief in God; and as the other posters on this topic are from Muslim countries, they have probably never met a person willing to openly admit to not believing in Allah. So as few if any here have real experience in practicing true tolerance of differing religious faiths, I knew that your attack on religion could quickly degenerate into a flaming hate-fest. And I didn't want to see Flower's interesting topic go off on such a nasty tangent.

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I have to do something special in my last hours of live...
If there is still time then, I will buy a gun and kill everybody I don't like.

So, atheists do not belive people have rights if you do not like them? Shocked How does that mesh with what you said earlier, about doing good just because it is cute? I hope you are just joking. Even though I'm a crazy, deluded, profit-driven religious nut, I believe people have inalienable human rights even if I hate them.

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Then, I will think about whom of the girls I like most, and to go to her and to say that I love her and (perhaps to drink a cup of wine with her), (tell her all my well-written-love-poetries) and to wait to die in her arms.

Now that is the nicest most romantic thing you have written, and I think it is a wonderful idea.
It brings to mind a short story by Larry Niven: "Incontant Moon", also about some people's last night on Earth (or so they think).
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.milner/books/inconstant_moon.htm

Most likely, my last 24 hours will be spent in a morphine-induced coma, lying in a hospital bed surrounded by my wife and children (and maybe grandchildren).
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river1974



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I had only 24 hours to live, I may try to contact those who love me or have ever helped me when I was in need and say "thanks" to them! I just want them to know how important and precious they are in my whole life!
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~smile~



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr.Admiral wrote:
If I had only 24 hours to live, the first thing I would do is to send all my money to my relatives and only to keep a little money for the next things.
The second thing I would do is to have a dinner with my girlfriend.
The third thing is to buy a ticket to the white house and to beat Bush down.

But......where are your parents?
maybe i rush your fences...but...think of your parents,they're the poeple who love you most... Rolling Eyes
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flower



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 2:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr.Admiral wrote:

The second thing I would do is to have a dinner with my girlfriend.


you said
" I don't want my parents know that I will be dead because it will hurt them" Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad

What a bout your girlfriend? the news also will hurt her.Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad
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Isaac Sadaqah



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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:05 am    Post subject: What I will do! Reply with quote

i will chilax

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moonako



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

First, I will pray and read holy quraan.
Second, if I have debts I should pay it because it belongs to others.
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flower



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

... Lyrics to the nasheed "Last Breath" sung by Ahmed Bukhatir...

http://download.al-islaam.com/audiovideo/anasheedram/al-islaam/html/samtan/lastbreath.swf
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