“No one truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.“ ~Prophet Muhammad I’m happy today and I’ve been happy for the past couple of days now, so happy, in fact, that the smile upon my face which has not abated yet. What could make a man so happy, you ask? […]
July 21, 2011
There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. The fog clears, and new energy makes you run up the […]
April 11, 2011
Often times, my fajr alarms (note the plural) are not what rouse me from slumber in the morning; it’s the birds that do it. They are nature’s alarm clocks, nature’s muezzins (one who calls the athan, the summons to prayer) with feathers and beaks: they sing every day at about the same time without fail. […]
November 29, 2010
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Of the many things I have come to recycle from my Catholic upbringing, I can say the Beatitudes (Latin for “blessings”) and the Sermon on the Mount resonant with me the most now that I am a Muslim. The Sermon […]
September 12, 2011
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