[excerpts from chat with a good non-Muslim friend]03/../2023 3:39 PMi had a really upsetting dream very early this morning. very upsetting, but carrying this tiny vein of possibility of hope. then when I woke up to make my morning prayers, I felt more lucid than I often do. and a beautiful thought occurred to me […]
Background During early post-shahada days, I listened to Sh. Hamza Yusef’s Capetown Muslim Events seerah series, and as rich and compelling as the whole series is, his relaying of some events is especially moving. One of those is the story of the lost necklace of a young Aisha radiyallahu anha*, her recovery of which resulted […]
…that’s how the light gets in.-L. Cohen Trauma has a stickiness and a gravity that becomes a deep identity trap, not by conscious decision but by default in a secular capitalist society that not only doesn’t provide the tools to move through and beyond it, but indeed commodifies it. This secular life does not teach […]
18:109 Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If the ocean were ink for ˹writing˺ the Words of my Lord, it would certainly run out before the Words of my Lord were finished, even if We refilled it with its equal.” 31:27 If all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean ˹were ink˺, refilled by seven other […]
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
discussing the latest mass school shooting and related public policy and action debates, I recently struggled articulating some thoughts in the moment which crystallized a bit after… a common point of departure is the question of what distinguishes America that it has become such a grotesque outlier in gun violence, and particularly mass shootings. opposers […]