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Ramadan Meditations I: To Chase the Setting Sun
“The summer sun is sinking low; Only the tree-tops redden and glow: Only the weathercock on the spire Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; All is in shadow below. O beautiful, awful summer day, What hast thou given, what taken away? Life and death, and love and hate, Homes made happy or […]
An Orphan of Sorts
May 8, 2012
CONSIDER the bright morning hours, and the night when it grows still and dark. Thy Sustainer has not forsaken thee, nor does He scorn thee: for, indeed, the life to come will be better for thee than this earlier part (of thy life)! And, indeed, in time will thy Sustainer grant thee (what thy heart […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Epilogue
July 7, 2011
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning.“ ~T.S Eliot, “Little Gidding” Nights in Istanbul, living, […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Şanlıurfa
July 6, 2011
My last stop in Turkey, Şanlıurfa. I think the pictures I took of Şanlıurfa (or Urfa for short) will do my visitation more justice than my words. Other than the all too common awkward glances from the locals and the occasional insinuation of me being an (Afro) Arab, I did not have any interesting encounters […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Van and Diyarbakır
July 4, 2011
The winds of al-qadr found me on a bus ride – a long bus ride, perhaps the longest one in my life thus far – to Van after coming back to Antalya from Olympos. When I reached the otogar (“bus station” is Turkish) coming from Olympos, I didn’t quite know where I wanted go next. […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Antalya and Olympos
June 30, 2011
I stayed in Antalya for two days prior to venturing to Olypomos. As I related to a friend, Antalya has the similitude of Miami in many ways, save of course for Antalya being a Turkish city and along the Mediterranean Sea. I didn’t travel throughout the city; I stayed in Kaleiçi, the old district of […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Göreme (Kapadokya)
June 23, 2011
I’m in Göreme, Kapadokya, the “Land of Beautiful Horses” (in Farsi), and I’m about to leave towards Antalya for a self-guided tour along the Western coast of Türkiye. Insha’Allah, I’ll stop in Antalya first. Then, God-willing, I’ll visit Olimpos (Olympos), Bodrum, Ephesus, and Izmir. From Izmir, I’ll fly to Van, a town near the eastern border […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Konya
June 20, 2011
As long as I live, I am the slave of the Qur’an And the dust of the path of Muhammad If anyone quotes anything except this from my words I am far away from that person and that word. ~Mevlâna Jalal ad-Din Rumi I just left from Konya this evening, traveling through Anatolia towards Cappadocia […]
Everybody’s Grudge
June 14, 2011
“I tell you, it’s always something sweet Jesus! And when it ain’t something, you’re dead! Life is a bitch, and then you die…or you marry one.” ~My Mom Yesterday, of all the places on God’s chromatic earth, I had the rare, opportune fortune of meeting some colleagues of mine from the University of Florida, in […]
Adventures in Türkiye: Hagia Sophia, Kapalı Çarşı, and Topkapı Sarayı
June 11, 2011
I trekked on foot back to Sultanahmet from the Eminönü district so that I could visit the illustrious Hagia Sophia, the historic church/masjid/museum – but not before praying jummah in one of the many grand masjids in Istanbul. The khutba (sermon, homily), as one could imagine, was delivered entirely in Turkish, save for the traditional […]
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