Lying on my sofa, on a quiet night, I took out my phone to look at my friends’ Whatsapp status, Instagram photos, and Facebook posts. They were living la vida loca. They were having a great time with their girlfriends dancing - the smiles, the selfies, and the fun. Oh! What was I doing alone on this cold night? If two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can I keep warm alone? I was lying on my sofa with no drive, no motivation, and no purpose. Sadly, I had no girlfriend also.
A stranger was staring at me with surprise at the crack of day in New York. I knew that this stranger was Depression. Pale and trembling I fled many miles away to Quebec. From there I was sure he would not find me, not even with Google maps. But when I came to Quebec, I saw, lurking in the shadows of the silent night, his grim figure. “Very well then”, I said, “I give in. I am yours. But tell me, why did you look surprised when you saw me in New York?”. “Because”, he said, “I had an appointment with you tonight, in Quebec”. I was lost in a long reverie of worry, a medley of distress. The minutes bled to hours, the hours to days. Every man has his breaking point, and this was mine.
Derrick tried several times to cajole me out to have fun, in a bid to save me from Depression. In trying to save my life, he conferred a value on it - a currency I did not know how to spend. My life flashed before my enchanting blue eyes. My future shimmered into darkness. A sensation of cold water spread through my body. Petit a petit, my body succumbed to the inevitable. “Tetelestai!” I shouted and gave my last breath. There I lay on my sofa like a dead man. (Wait! But dead men tell no tales!)
Scratch that! The thought of my burning noodles on the fire woke me up from slumber. Oh no! Have I set my last supper ablaze? I jolted from my sofa off to my kitchen. Abracadabra! All was lost! I wept like a 3-year-old schoolboy whose biscuit was snatched from his hand. Let me go back to my sofa, now a depressed, lonely, and hungry man. I drank lots of water and slept never to wake up to my misery again. Tragic!
The sweet caress of the twilight woke me up from “40 hours” of sleep. I was determined to find an antidote to my misery, for it had lingered for many years. Was it Wine? Money? Fame? Or a Sweet Empress? Lord! - Short, tall, dark, or fair, anyone will do! I had now run out of options. I came out of my room searching for an answer. Who should I ask? Where should I go? What should I do?
I surfed the internet and stumbled upon successful people. My eyes were opened to a bright colorful world. Eureka! I have found the solution - Success! I started studying the lives of these high achievers abroad. I read about a lot of young successful people changing our world. It was pretty amazing and somewhat intimidating when I read about people as young as 10 years old changing the world. What was I doing by then - scribbling with a pen on a piece of paper? It looked like I had been living under a rock for the past 10 years.
Later, I studied and interviewed successful people in Ghana to find out what makes their world go round. After countless hours of research, analysis, and interviews, I realized to my uttermost surprise that, the path to success wasn’t a straight line, but a wild ride like a ship at sea, with you steering the wheels like Captain Jack Sparrow taming a turbulent ocean.
All the successful people I studied and interviewed had similar mindsets and habits that brought them out of hard-pressed situations the average Jack and Jill would not survive. Later, I realized that not all the successful people I interviewed were happy. So this took me on another journey. This time around, I was determined to find out why people were happy. I studied and interviewed people I consider often happy. I searched their warm hearts to find out what made their world bloom. They also shared similar mindsets and habits.
After a while, I decided to take a survey on the streets to find out what most people preferred: success or happiness? Most people, usually women, chose happiness over success. However, everyone told me they preferred the two.
There is a balanced view of what leads to success and happiness and, generally, most authorities on the topic agree on several basic factors that are greatly needed. They are:
1. Your mindset
2. Your habits
Successful and happy people have a great mindset and habits which invariably lead them to success. Anyone who adapts such mindset and habits will also be rocking their boat to success. We are all in some way, connected to success and happiness. We are either running after it, achieving it, or being eluded by it. I have bundled a list containing the mindset and habits these successful and happy people have in common so that like Cupid, you will aim your arrow dead center at them. Like stars, these ideals are hard to reach, but they serve for navigation during the night. It’s not just enough to know them but to actually understand them and work hard to improve on them.
At the end of this book, you should be able to tell which mindsets or habits are your strengths and which ones you need to develop over the long term. I recommend you bet big on your strengths for the short term and over the next couple of years, invest heavily into acquiring the remaining ones. Before we go into the deep, take my hand and walk with me, as we embark on this exciting journey that will lead us to success and happiness.
Excerpt from the book, Secrets to Success & Happiness by Joshua Naabu, M.D
https://t.co/LTrRFEvtcE
Muslims today believe in fiction created by the Abbasid Caliphate.
1. Mecca didn’t exist in the 7th century
A. No archaeological evidence.
B. No historical evidence.
C. No or very little water.
2. Mecca (only mentioned once in the Quran) wasn’t on any historical map until 900.
The Quran talks about a fertile place, which is not Mecca,
A. A stream
B. Fruits
C. Olive trees
D. Fields etc.
None of these were in Mecca in the 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th centuries, and it was not until the late 20th century that Saudi Arabia started to build water desalination plants.
3. Medina was an insignificant little place.
4. The term ‘Mohammad’ (Praised One) was first found on a Christian coin in 661, referring to Jesus, which had Christian symbols.
5. The term Mohammad was used by Arab Christians for Jesus until the mid-8th century.
6. The Mohammad that Muslims believe in today was invented by the Abbasid Caliphate in the late 8th or early 9th century.
Mohammad is mentioned only four times in the Quran.
The Muslim/Abbasid Mohammad in the Quran is the last of the four (Surah 33:40), an Abbasid interpolation; the first three refer to Jesus.
7. The Dome of the Rock was not a Mosque; it was built by Abdul al-Malik as an anti-trinitarian Christian building.
Both Abdul al-Malik and his brother were anti-trinitarian Christians and used Christian symbols on their coins.
8. Abdul al-Malik sent a directive throughout his Kingdom saying that the term ‘Mohammad’ should refer to Jesus.
9. The only original parts of the Dome of the Rock are the inner ambulatories, and the Mohammad’s written on them refer to Jesus (in fact, the term Jesus is on one of them), and they are decorated with lots of grapes, a Christian symbol.
10. There were no Islamic Qurans in the 7th Century.
The proto-Quran was Christian lectionaries written in Aramaic and old Arabic.
This has led to many mistranslations in the much later Islamic/Abbasid Quran.
Conclusion: What Muslims believe today is a fraudulent story started by the Abbasid Caliphate when they came into power in 750.
The Abbasid Caliphate bastardized the Arab Anti-trinitarian Christian lectionaries (combined with the mistranslations) to form their Quran to suit their agenda.
Islam did not create an empire. The empire created Islam.
When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran DOESN'T have.
Namely, exact dates, exact places or exact titles or names you can check.
Bro, when you read the Quran’s stories there is literally zero chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year. It is incredibly vague.
You cannot get answers to questions like: Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it, which conveniently means you can’t check it.
Now, contrast that to the Bible, read the opening of Luke 3:
“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”
SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.
An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.
And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…
UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.
Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.
Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”
Certainty. That’s the offer of the Bible.
The Quran floats above history where nothing can touch it.
The Bible planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.
I dug. It’s still standing.
Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.
🚨 BREAKING: JORDAN PETERSON DROPS MAJOR TRUTHS ON PIERS MORGAN UNCENSORED 🚨
Jordan Peterson perfectly highlights the dangerous reality of the energy crisis. With brilliant sarcasm, he unmasks the policies making environmental problems
worse while pushing millions into food insecurity.
"It's not that you love the planet, it's that you hate humanity." 🎯
Watch him completely expose the logical flaws in Western policy:
#JordanPeterson #PiersMorgan #EnergyCrisis #BreakingNews
The word “coincidence” appears only once in most English Bibles, in Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:31). Many translations render the Greek synkyria as “by chance” or “by coincidence.” The term combines ideas of things happening “together” under a “lord” or authority, which some readers take as a hint that even apparently random meetings fall under God’s arrangement.
That single usage sits inside a much larger biblical picture. Scripture repeatedly presents God as sovereign over events that look accidental to us:
“The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord” (Proverbs 16:33).
Not even a sparrow falls without the Father’s notice (Matthew 10:29).
God declares the end from the beginning and does whatever He purposes (Isaiah 46:9–11).
Stories that read like lucky timing—Ruth “happening” to glean in Boaz’s field, Rebekah appearing at the well just as Abraham’s servant prayed, a random arrow finding the joint in Ahab’s armor—are treated as providence, not chance. From a human viewpoint they look coincidental; from the Bible’s viewpoint they are not.
So the short answer is: the word is biblical (once), but the idea of events that happen for no reason at all is not. The consistent teaching is that what we call coincidence is usually just providence we have not yet recognized.
No. Islam's texts and classical doctrine include both calls for peace and commands for warfare, including against non-believers. The Quran has verses on defensive fighting and broader ones like 9:5. Muhammad led military campaigns; early expansions involved conquest. Most Muslims live peacefully today, but the tradition is not pacifist.
BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “Vaccination” of Children Linked to AUTISM, ADHD, ANXIETY, and SPECIAL-ED USE
We analyzed NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE U.S. government data (NHIS) from 21,990 children in the FIRST-EVER study examining childhood COVID vaccination and autism outcomes.
Compared with unvaccinated children, COVID-vaccinated children had significantly higher odds of:
AUTISM: +32%
ADHD: +33%
ANY NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER: +23%
SPECIAL-ED USE: +19%
ASTHMA: +24%
ANXIETY: +27%
MENTAL-HEALTH DRUG USE: +57%
MENTAL-HEALTH THERAPY: +60%
The strongest autism signal hit young children: ages 5–7 with 3+ COVID shots had 154% higher odds of AUTISM.
The odds of multiple conditions increased with more COVID shot doses—including autism, ADHD, anxiety, neurodevelopmental disorders, asthma, and mental-health therapy.
The autism signal PERSISTED even after accounting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, income, parental education, insurance, region, healthcare access, wellness visits, ER use, hospitalization, prescription use, and influenza vaccination—and REMAINED after propensity-score balancing and restriction to physically healthy children.
COVID-19 “vaccination” of children MUST CEASE IMMEDIATELY.
CHAPTER 3
Her eyes closed and her mind was carried to a pleasant place as she savoured Al Bawadi. For a moment, she was lost as her taste buds guided her into a new world. Those few seconds allowed Prince Ali to take a closer look at Latoya’s beauty. Her lips were small and pink, and perfectly placed dimples in her cheeks were a bold invitation for any passer-by to drop their bags and baggage and stare at her for as long as her smile, that revealed them, lasted. Diamonds, sapphire, rubies and pearls; are mere toys compared to her beauty. She had immaculate composure like a princess.
“What are you looking at?”
The question catapulted Prince Ali from fantasy back to earth.
“I was looking at erh.. erhm err.”
Before he could finish she interjected
“Do you find them delightful?”
“Do I find what delightful?”
“The Al Bawadis, of course”
“oh yes! The Al Bawadis, are delightful. My father has been bringing me to this inn since I was a child and I’m yet to grow tired of its refreshing and stimulating taste.”
“I see,” Latoya said, as she munched on the last piece of the al Bawadi in her hand.
She turned her big bright eyes that seemed to hold the keys to half of the world’s undiscovered treasures, towards Ali.
“Are you afraid? The tournament is two days away.”
“Fear is a concept that only cowards embrace,” he said
“I believe that with good training and preparation of heart and mind I can emerge victorious again,” Ali said, with a smile and a boyish wink.
“..again?”
“Yes I won it the last time, and two other times before that”
“Wow, that’s impressive. I wouldn’t have guessed you were a defending champion from your slender biceps”
They both laugh.
“What is the prize for the champion this year?”
“The prize is as it has always been, the winning champion gets the royal honour of being the personal bodyguard of the Sultan and is paid 200 silver coins.”
Latoya’s eyes lit up.
“If you are the reigning champion and you here with me who is protecting the Sultan?”
“Ali..! Wadud calls out appearing from nowhere.
“I’ve searched everywhere for you. The Sultan requests your presence in the palace immediately.”
No. The God of the Bible is Triune—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—with Jesus as the eternal divine Son who was crucified and raised. The Quran’s Allah is strictly unitarian, explicitly denies the Trinity, Jesus’ divinity or sonship, and the crucifixion. The two differ fundamentally in nature, attributes, and revelation.