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	<description>Ţūbā  -  blessedness, beautitude; Beatitude (title of honour of a patriarch; Chr.) [at Surat ar-Ra'd - 13:29].</description>
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		<title>HasbunAllāhu wa ne m al-Wakīl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216; Men said to them: &#8220;A great army is gathering against you&#8221;: and frightened them: but it (only) increased their faith. They said:
&#8220;For us Allah sufficeth and He is the best disposer of affairs.&#8221; &#8216;
The Holy Qur&#8217;ān &#8211; Surah Āl-i-  Imrān (3:173)


Transliteration: Hasbun allaahu wa ni&#8217;mal wakeel
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Posted in Practising Moslemness   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=366&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/hasbunallahu-wa-ne-%ef%80%92m-al-wakil/</link>
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		<title>Cubic Hand Span</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exhibit TZ1: A sample cubic hand span, dated 31st October 2009.

A huggable (panda/ giant canary) sized cube, in exploding vermilion, with smoothly rounded corners and softly bevelled edges sits at a fixed axis atop the desk. Clusters of brightly coloured flowers blossom in patches and cling to it coolly like ivy.
From the left, storms the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=353&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/cubic-hand-span/</link>
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		<title>Clashnicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clashnicity n. a person&#8217;s ethnicity as rounded to the nearest decimal place.
Derivatives: Clashonality n. as above, for a person&#8217;s nationality.


Examples:

Palestindian


Boskistani


Lebanyptian


Thairish


Pakashmiraqi


Portugarab


Chingitaiian

Posted in Linguistics       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=345&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/clashnicity/</link>
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		<title>A Loom for Blindfolds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted in Practising Moslemness       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=341&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/a-loom-for-blindfolds/</link>
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		<title>Felt.</title>
		<description><![CDATA["My heart is heavy."  He said. "Could you hold it for me?"

"Here." I said. "Mine is lighter - let's swap a while."

The rule is that you can only hold one at once and you must hold one at all times.

[swap]

Careful not to drop it, I dared not lift my gaze.

It was late when I did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=329&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/felt/</link>
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		<title>Open Forum: &#8216;Feminazi&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feminazi noun [_______________________________________________________]
Posted in Linguistics       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=327&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/open-forum-feminazi/</link>
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		<title>Canvascape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toobaa was flipping through her old journals.
&#8216;&#8230; It is time to make actions my ink and the world my canvas.&#8217;
Posted in Ego-Slap, Practising Moslemness       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=325&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/canvascape/</link>
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		<title>Bride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Posted in Photography       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=323&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/bride/</link>
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		<title>Dorian Darcy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toobaa tried to draw Dorian Gray but it ended up looking like Mr. Darcy. There is no need to quote Oscar Wilde but I&#8217;d like to, anyway.
&#8220;But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.&#8221;
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=315&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/dorian-darcy/</link>
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		<title>LOVE IN A FACE PLANT: DRIVE-BY LOSERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As outlined in my previous post:
Face plant n. a serious fall which culminates in one landing on his/her face; the involuntary act of plant impersonation with one&#8217;s face as its roots; from the colloquial = &#8216;when trying harder does not make you a winner, but makes it funnier for others to watch you lose&#8217;.
* * [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=301&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/love-in-a-face-plant-drive-by-losers/</link>
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		<title>LOVE IN A FACE PLANT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Face plant n. a serious fall which culminates in one landing on his/her face; the involuntary act of plant impersonation with one&#8217;s face as its roots; from the colloquial = &#8216;when trying harder does not make you a winner, but makes it funnier for others to watch you lose&#8217;.
What excited Toobaa about Shelina Zahra Janmohamed&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=250&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/love-in-a-face-plant/</link>
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		<title>The Infinite of Supplication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Posted in Practising Moslemness       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=245&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/the-infinite-of-supplication/</link>
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		<title>Jaina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JAINA
1971.
Perhaps her birth name was Zainab, but she was known in the dusty mohalla of Mohammad Iqbal’s Sialkot as Mai Jaina, or Masi Jaina. Jaina was a widow. She was also known, most respectfully, amongst the townspeople as a waliullah, or a ‘friend of God’. Every day, after Maghrib, the obligatory sunset prayers, she would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=242&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/jaina/</link>
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		<title>Trick or Treat!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



&#8221; furkid             noun  a domestic animal that is treated as if it is its owner&#8217;s child &#8211; There is a movement among some animal lovers to proscribe the use of &#8216;pet&#8217; as it is demeaning to the animal. Preferred terms include &#8216;companion animal&#8217; and &#8216;furkid&#8217;, the latter conferring on the animal a status equivalent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=211&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/trick-or-treat/</link>
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		<title>Passive Participle: Thunk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For you &#8211; me &#8211; an impression of dehuman.

Freedom, please! Admit me.

Thunk me into a made-up plain.

Unimagine me! I may feel, then.

I may feel my way away, away.

Posted in Odes to the Mighty       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=203&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/passive-participle-thunk/</link>
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		<title>ibadat &#8211; ibaadat &#8211; ibadah &#8211; ibaadah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/ibadat-ibaadat-ibadah-ibaadah/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Take Two&#8217; &#8211; Take One!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Slumped over her worn white desk, resigned to the shifty incompetence of a few, she stares blandly at a page again for the first time ever. The summer of repetition. The ink has invisibled like the many pointed optical illusion that no longer remains an illusion when the entire field of dots, utterly offended by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=149&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/take-two-take-one/</link>
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		<title>Spelling Changes Your Bio-Logical Make-Up.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[












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		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/spelling-changes-your-bio-logical-make-up/</link>
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		<title>A Tattered File Wrapped in Silk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
An excitement for the offering of life dressed with a brave face and a weak but questioning smile &#8211; overwhelming and fantastically beautiful. The highest platform now may be a neatly cut stack of FT&#8217;s but this purpose, intangible by the human angle, kneels gratefully at His Throne. Reliance may deceive them but it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=124&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/a-tattered-file-wrapped-in-silk/</link>
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		<title>Jacqui Smith’s &#8216;New Language’?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure whose guise the anti-Christ is in nowadays as it&#8217;s all rather oxy-moronic. In any case, she&#8217;s decided to refer to ‘Islamists&#8217;/'Fanatics&#8217;/'Extremists&#8217; (all the heavy words that have masses of lost meaning) as being involved in ‘anti-Islamic activity&#8217;.
On the face of it- I like. After years of trying to push poo up a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=toobaa.wordpress.com&blog=1486211&post=123&subd=toobaa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://toobaa.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/jacqui-smith%e2%80%99s-new-language%e2%80%99/</link>
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