(well, in reality, today is friday). in santa clara, sheikh mohamed used to give a short 3 minute reminder after isha on thursdays. each time, this reminder would start with the phrase, “tomorrow is friday,” after which he would remind us the virtues of salah on the Prophet (ﷺ) on fridays and would mention something from his sunnah.
one of the most beautiful du3as i used to always hear sheikh mohamed say was:
اللهم اجعل سرنا خيراً من علانيتنى، واجعل علانيتنا خيرا
“Allahuma aj3al sirana khayran min 3alaneyatina wa aj3al 3alaneyatina khayra” – the rough meaning of which is, “oh Allah, make what is hidden (from our actions, intentions, deeds, etc) better than what is latent and visible to people, and make what is visible to people good.” may Allah grant us all ikhlas – ameen!
happy friday!
#!/bin/sh
APP_NAME="Etisalat_3.5G_USB_Modem"
APP_PATH="/Applications/Mobile Partner.app"
sudo chmod -R a+rwx "$APP_PATH"
chmod -R a+rw "/usr/local/"
the above code snippet is from the first few lines of one of the etisalat 3g usb modem’s postinstall script on osx – seriously, why chmod -R a+rw "/usr/local/"? no one uses /usr/local except etisalat?
the modem is a huawei e1550 hsdpa usb stick.
update (june 16, 2011) – @AhmedElGamil sent this post to @EtisalatMisr over twitter, and they said they would forward it to the responsible team insha’Allah. you can see the conversation on twitter here.
something interesting always happens whenever i make the trip from alex to cairo. the past two times i went, i encountered some sort of major discussion over the fare of the mashroo3 (micro bus).
during the first incident, i was leaving from sidi gaber – as those in alex may know, how long it takes to fill the mashroo3 depends on what time you leave (esp since sidi gaber doesn’t have as much traffic to cairo as ma7atet masr does). anyhow, after waiting ~45 minutes and finally having enough people to be ready to go, the man announces that the charge will be 25le (the normal is 22). people were outraged and argued, etc – mainly because of the chicanery involved (waste 45 minutes of our time and then tell us that you’re charging more, so we either go ride another bus (and wait another 45 minutes to save 3le, or we deal with it and pay)).
the man didn’t budge about the price, and people stayed on board (but were disgruntled). one lady, during the argument, said “mesh awel mara nerkabooha” (this happened to be the first time i heard the alexandrian slang of changing the form of a verb to something i can’t yet explain – it should be “mesh awel mara nerkabha…” – go figure). later, the man decided to stop on the way to use the restroom and the lady became angry – he offered to let her take another microbus the rest of the way if she wasn’t happy (but she decided to stay).
i had a similar experience yesterday when coming back from cairo – the man wanted 25, but the people got their way of paying 22. afterwards, a huge argument broke out with the driver about turning the ac on (he didn’t want to turn it on until we got on the highway).