Life is like the ocean, cold, empty and dark. It throws you this way and that, up and down, and even when you see the wave coming you are helpless …
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Effort every day – faith and repentance
The Muslim must learn beyond mere lip service that s/he is only nourishing, safeguarding, wasting or destroying the Life s/he could never have acquired by her own efforts; Allah t’ala …
More +Fantasists
We have been brought up as fantasists. Our culture thrusts into our eyes and ears the images and sounds against which we hammer our faces in conformity and compliance, ‘it …
More +Converting/ Reverting: thoughts and fun with semantics
I used to want to be called a ‘revert’ not a ‘convert’ to Islam, but stop the press, it is at last conclusive, I am actually a convert. I think …
More +Romantic Vision No. 1 – Lain in the Summer’s Rain
Sweet gentle rain caressing my face, Easing the strain; Dry billowing heat dancing on my skin Lays me down in defeat.…
More +Observation 0001
She had a voice like a sneeze – it was all of a sudden and all at you!…
More +The Answers are in the Whole
Some people seem to think that Islam produces social justice and that we may take the lessons of this part of the religion and work them out in society. But …
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Sleepless Mind
The film of my fears flickers fiercely, unmercifully Upon the shadows of my eyelids, clasped So firmly closed in a grasp for sleep – Failing.…
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A Plea, a Prayer
Our Lord is He Whose Mercy remains un-enumerated by man or jinn (another type of unseen created being). He has made us a mutual mercy one to the other, in …
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Outburst
The storm breaks Festering and brewing under surfaces visibly seething and finally blown. Words cracking and whipping across the room And clouds bulge, thunder filled……
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