Hearts and what they do are for Allah alone. For us, we are left with only the shells and husks of actions and appearances, which are too often fragile and …
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Observation – Over the Top
She laughed. She laughed accidentally all too hard and coupled it with a bending in two at the waist, a hand flailing to a nearby friend to rescue her from …
More +Observation – His Arrogance Our Hypocrisy
He sat arrogantly in the chair as if on a high throne from which he could bark down orders to the scurrying undeserving minions. His ‘thank-you’s’ dripped with expectant gratitude …
More +Observation – Friends and Lovers
Friends cannot be lovers, for that would mean trust is misplaced and then replaced with lust. And lust is fleeting then retreating with repetition until it is lost forever. Lovers …
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War Wounds – The Promise of Obama
Obama promised to close down Guantánamo Bay Internment Camp upon being elected President back in 2009. He neglected to mention that this could only be possible because a new strategy …
More +Observation – Workplace Conversation
This conversation chokes me! Every word is a knot stuck in my throat. Every thought about every next sentence is another noose tightening around my neck. I am blacking out …
More +In Memoriam of Asghar Butt (rahimahullah)
That cry, that piercing pain drenched cry. It had to come. We had been waiting on each report, not with baited breath but instead holding it as if somehow it …
More +Writing Exercise
Exercise: Write one paragraph containing 1 fact about yourself and 3 fictions, then another paragraph with 1 fiction and 3 facts about yourself. They can be in any order and …
More +Observation – Thoughts Transforming
Like eels my thoughts shimmer under the veil of the river’s water. They seem almost silver as if light danced on them but only skin deep. They glint luminous until …
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The Silence of Love
If there is ever a sound that captures love in all its glory, It must be the sound the heart makes when it misses a beat; Like that momentary stillness …
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