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uprising313

Salaam / Shalom / Peace

About Me

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim.
I dont know what to write about me. I'm 27 years old, live in Sweden and on my spare time i do Tai Chi and drink Chai Tea. Ok, bad joke (and i didnt even come up with it!).
I'm Muslim and vegan (Is that M vegan M or V Muslim V?), enough said.
"Praise be to Allah Who lies inside all hidden things, and towards Whom all open things guide. He cannot be seen by the eye of an onlooker, but the eye which does not see Him cannot deny Him while the mind that proves His existence cannot perceive Him.
He is so high in sublimity that nothing can be more sublime than He, while in nearness, He is so near that no one can be nearer than He. But his sublimity does not put Him at a distance from anything of His creation, nor does His nearness bring them on equal level to Him.
He has not informed (human) wit about the limits of His qualities. Nevertheless, He has not prevented it from securing essential knowledge of Him. So he is such that all signs of existence stand witness for Him till the denying mind also believes in Him. Allah is sublime beyond what is described by those who liken Him to things or those who deny Him."
- Imam Ali ('alayhi salaam), Nahj al-Balaghah sermon 49.
Good sites with a lot of wisdom:
http://www.hashlamah.org/
http://www.bmf.org/
http://www.zaytuna.org/
http://www.nuradeen.com/
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- one of the best comedies ever made
Life of Brian
- Peoples Front of Judea (or was it the Popular Front of Judea?)

My Interests

Islam
Martial arts
Conditioning
Books (mainly non-fiction)
Vegan cooking
Photography
Nature
Qi Gong, Meditation and all that..

I'd like to meet:

Likeminded individuals from around the world. Feel free to drop me a mail or a comment.

Music:

Sunny Day Real Estate, Sigur Rós, The Roots, Immortal Technique, Talaam Acey, Amir Sulayman to name a few..
And every now and then i put on some old hardcore record for nostalgic reasons.

Movies:

Memento
The Matrix
Fight Club
Subject Zero
Twelve Monkeys
Falling down
American History X
Black Hawk Down
The Village
Heat
Ronin
The Machinist
Malcom X (the one with Denzel)
Minority Report
Star Wars
Lord of the rings
Dawn of the Dead
Man on Fire
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Identity
Everything with Monty Python
.. and then some..

Television:

Lost
UFC and TUF
The Simpsons
Cook like a Chef

Books:

Everything that is good. For starters i can recommend the following books:

Heroes:

"Martial arts, in my mind, is totally different than just fighting. The Chinese characters for martial arts actually mean to stop war. Stop the war or stop the fighting. A few thousand years ago, they started martial arts to stop war. But later on, we [took] out the art; we only fight, fight, fight." - Jet Li