Happy Prohet Muhammad's Birthday!

This morning I heard in the news that today is Prophet Muhammad (Peace be uopn him) birthday. This reminded me of good old times when I was a better moslim! Now I'm not even sure if I can call myself a muslim...
A couple year ago, I got into an argument with one of my coworkers who was an African-American moslim. She said most of moslim countries don't beleive Iranians are moslims! since the people don't practice religion as much as other moslims do. I opposed this idea right away. Now I'm thinking if they have concluded that from what they've seen from Iranians who are in America, they're probably right! When there is a moslim holiday, most Iranin-Americans do not even know about it or even if they know they don't care about it. But American, African, and Pakistani Moslims celebrate it. Most of them even take the day off Fridays to attend the JamA'at prayers. I was so surprised of this when I came and I was wondering: what kinds of moslims are we? Can we still call ourselves moslims or is it better to say that we just beleive in God and no riligion in particular.
At the end I say my today's prayer the one I like a lot:
Ehdena'serAt'al mostaghim (==[God] Keep us in straight line...) This is my feavorite line from Quran and I hope I translated it right!

NiAyesh

[Note: This post is in farsi language or I should say finglish!]

khodaya, dar barabare har anche ensan mandan ra be tabahi mikeshanad, mara ba nadashtan o nakhastan rooein tan kon.

khodaya,be man tofigh e talash dar shekast, sabr dar na omidi, raftan e bi hamrah, jahad e bi selah, kar e bi padash,fadakari dar sokoot,din e bi donya mazhab e bi avam, khedmat e bi nan, iman e bi ria, khoobi e bi nemood, gostakhi e bi khami, mana'ate bi ghoroor, eshghe bi havas, tanhaeei dar anboohe jameeiat, doost dashtan bi anke doostat bedarand, roozi kon.

khodaya, bar erade, osyan, heyrat, letafat, rooh, shahamat va tanhaeeiam biafzayy.

khodaya, be man taghvaye setiz biamooz ta dar anboohe masuliat nalaghzam, va az taghvaye parhiz, masoonam dar ta dar konje ozlat napoosam.

khodaya, be man zistani ata kon ke dar lahzeye marg, bar bi samari e donya va lahzeei ke baraye zistan gozashte ast hasrat nakhoram, va mordani ata kon ke bar bihoodegiash soogvar nabasham.

khodaya, chegoone zistan ra to be man biamooz,
chegoone mordan ra khod khaham danest.
Dr.Ali Shariati

Goal

There was once a time that I was thinking of my goals... at that time I was still in highschool and very eager to LEARN everything. Then the time came that I had to go to a university a little far from home... That's the time I started growing up;I started applying my learned life values into action, by values I mean caring & loving people, sacrificing and of course sprituality and love of God. That was the time that I sat down and thought about life deeply, thousands of questions, thousands of why's... I'd wish so much that God could speak to me. He did, but through signs and in different words from different people's mouths and from different readings. that was the time of my "spritual revolution" and the result was setting a new goal in life: To become as close as possible to "PERFECT HUMAN" and I realized if I achieve that, that'll be the time that I'd die happy. Then the big question arises: Defining the perfacet human. I tried to search for roll models in family, friends, and society and had some success, but it wasn't enough. I read some of Dr. Shari'ati's books and those have helped a great deal, but I still haven't got all my answers.
I thought taking philosophy courses will help me "see" better, but it was not what I needed. At this moment I'm reading a book on Buddhism which is very close to what I need, but you my dear "reader" I could defenitely use your suggestions and opinions. Who would you define as a perfect human.

To Socialize or not to??

So many things in my mind that I don't know which to think: News & Media 's bias; Liberals and conservatives and the issue of abortion, and the most important the top, but "twisted" movie 300... and my personal issue: I am I too social?!
At work, I was called to be a "social bee" for my people & social skills, i guess because I was friendly and could make friends easily; as a result I am almost always in a big circle of friends. At this moment my number of friends seem to have gone way up! so many that I'm scared I won't be able to take care of each one of them as I'd love to and this makes me sad. I have ended up turning down lunches and delaying return of phone calls and this hurts me. So, is it really necessary to think of numbers: HOW MANY is one person's capacity? I guess it all depends on how busy we really are and what limitations we have...

My New Friend

Hey; this is the link to Zizi's blog, the one who inspired me to have a weblog. Enjoy: http://homeeverydaylife.blogspot.com/

Yey.. My New Weblog!

Hello
Alright, this wasn't hard at all! I just did a little research and found out how easy it was to create a blog. It's good to know that there is a place where I can share my thoughts with whomever; I guess I can get rid of my good old dairy notebook now; na I'll keep it!
Ok...Any thoughts for now? Not much; I just feel stronger than before in regards to emotional feelings and controlling them and that makes me real proud :)