gratitude
I was quite moved when I heard that my Saudi pen pal thanked his god for the accident he got into, although he suffered a loss and was quite inconvenienced by it. I thought he would be distressed or such, but he was surprisingly gentle, not calm. We could not find someone like that in the West. We go mad. ^_^ I am a free thinker with a shallow understanding of some major religions of the world. My understanding is that a true Muslim would think that way. In Chinese, I think the closest concept to their إن شاء الله is 随缘，which is my core modus operandi. So I understand how they think, to some extent. My understanding is that the Muslims in the West is not the same as a typical Muslim in the Middle East. The ones from the West are like Chinese restaurants in the West, ie. westernized Chinese food, not the real thing. There are certain ways of thinking and behaving of a true Muslim, but that is hard to find in the West. ...
