Re: My Funeral

Clive — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 23:44:49 GMT

Hi Sadeem,

I think this is an excellent idea, and excellent writing.

Instead of { }, use quotation marks, double " " or single ' '

Say and instead of &.

Genenerally, try to use just one question mark or exclamatio mark at a time.

I've made some changes, read carefully.

Best wishes, Clive

My Funeral
Oh my God!!!! Today "Azraeel", an angel who is responsible for taking the souls visits me .He says, âItâs your turn, Sadeemâ. I cry and plead with him to let me live longer but he refuses and says âOh dear, Iâm in a hurry, Iâve to take many souls besides yours!!!" After a while, he takes mine. Then one of my sisters comes to wake me up. She tries and tries, but in vain. So she starts shouting and calling my parents. They come in a hurry. Moreover everyone tries to do his or her best to let me live again . My youngest sister tries to hear my heartbeat, but she canât hear any!! My youngest brother carries me to the car in order to go to the Emergency with my parents, who are wearing their pajamas .Many doctors come around me anddo their best just to convince my family that I have died ..
One of them collects his courage and puts his hand on my fatherâs shoulder, saying "You are a Muslim ..This is Godâs will .. God chooses her soul ..Actually itâs his .. Itâs a road all of us will pass down .. Just pray for her ..May Allah release her soul in paradise .." It is an unexpected shock to all my family .. how come???!!!!! A young girl dies suddenly although they know death doesnât differentiate between young and old .. black and white .. muslim and non-muslim !! They start recalling all my life as a tape, all my laughs , speeches , jokes, graduation â¦etc . Then they ask my father to start the procedure by writing a certification of death ..He does that with a flood of tears .. then they carry me to the washroom ..there are many women who take my clothes off and cover my body from my belly till my half thigh .. They press my belly and wash me with water and SEDDER .. Then they cover all my body with five separated clothes .. After that they carry me to the mosque .. oh my God ! Iâm now in the menâs section in front of the Imam .. They pray the funeral prayer without bows or prostration .. They carry me again on their shoulder to my last home, to my grave .. Then they dig a hole in the ground and put me there. Next they put a heap of sand on my grave ..Now Iâm alone in my grave .. no one stays with me ..but I can hear the voice of all my family , relatives and friends .. I can hear their crying and walking .. now Iâm here without money or property ,my PC, dictionaries, .. Iâm here alone under my ground .. Iâm here alone under the ground .. oh my God !!! now Iâm with two angels .. they ask me WHO IS YOUR GOD? WHO IS YOUR PROPHET ? WHAT IS YOUR RELIGION ? Iâm here being asked by the angels while my family receives a lot of my friends , relatives & neighbours to condole them .. after three days everyone I know is busy with his or her life and forgets Sadeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem !!!!
{no!when it {i.e.the soul }has reached the collar bones.26. and it is said âwho will cure {him}?.27.and he {i.e. the dying one }is certain that it is the {time of } separation .28.and the leg is wound about the leg.29.to your Lord , that Day , will be the procession .30.}Surah75 al-Qiyamah
wesalamkum;
sadeeeem

4-2-2003

Re: differences and other stuff... part1

Grammar Geek — Sat, 13 May 2006 18:30:49 GMT

Wow. A lot of questions here. I'll try some of them. By the way, there's no space between the end of the word and the question mark. I'm correcting it below.

1. What's the difference (especially in meaning) between :
a) wood and timber? Timber is the more natural state of the wood. An object could be made out of wood, but you would not say it's made out of timber. When the trees are cut down and sent for processing, they are timber.

b) a wet blanket and a killjoy? Not much. Both are people who will make comments that make something less fun, or not allow something "fun" to happen.

c) a good mixer and the life and soulf of the party? A good mixer is someone who can talk easily with other people, but "the life and soul of the party" is going to be attracting a lot of attention, making jokes, being entertaining. You can be a good mixer but be very quiet, not drawing attention to yourself outside of the conversation you're having. When the life and soul of the party enters a room, everyone in the room knows it.

(by the way - why is there "the" instead of "a" at the beginning? and why is there "the party"?) "the life and soul of the party" is just an idiom

d) yell and scream? You can use them interchangeably many times. Yell (to me) implies volume, and scream has emotion associated with it. I might yell across the field to make sure I was heard, but I would scream if I were angry, frightened, etc. But that said, you'll see things like "She had to scream to be heard over the wind" so it will depend on the writer and the context.

e) moan and whimper Again, not much difference here. Wimper might sound a little more like speech. If you speak in a wimper, it's a small voice. You don't wimper loudly. You can moan loudly though.

2. Can I say...

a) Do you want a candy? or do I have to say "Do you want a piece of candy?" a candy bar, a piece of candy, some candy, but not just "a candy"

b) same question but with "sweet" This is a BrE word, so I'm going to leave it to a Brit for a definitive answer, but I belive you can have "a sweet" which means "a piece of candy." I think if you were to say "a piece of sweet" you would have taken whatever you have and broken it so you could offer a piece of it. But I could be entirely wrong. Nona??

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