Someone died today. It was a gruelling, grinding death. The scene played out in many long acts in a quiet part of a hospital in a quiet part of town. …
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As the rain tapped onto the window before running down the panes, falling on furrowed red bricks and turning invisible in the lush grass at the foot of stone walls, …
More +Right to wear what I want…
She wore a white blouse. The blouse was plain in parts but had been made mottled with a blurred lace pattern where her bra was pressed against the silky material. …
More +My Club
Instead of leaving my home, instead of navigating through life outside, I shall enclose the world within these walls. Just as the world has closed its eyes on me I …
More +I fight a battle
I fight a battle all too frequently. It is one I have never relished but since I was blessed with Islam it has become starker in its naked contradictions and …
More +Observation – Mirrors
Even with the best and brightest mirror you cannot see how you really are with your eyes closed.…
More +Rest… like Mourning
And it is at times like this when the darkness creeps out and brushes deliberately against my mind like the cat reminding you it is feeding time, when the darkness …
More +Sunflowers
Sunflowers beat down burning brittle shadows overhead as we embrace, hidden from humanity by our fixated eyes, glazed and gazing at the beginning of our love. We have only fantasies …
More +Ending to what end?
The unexpected cough, the unstoppable sneeze or the inexorable blinking of your eyes, all are signs of Allah’s encompassing power. They are signs of His easy ability to end you …
More +BriefspaceThoughtsspaceAboutspaceSpacestop
What is the space called that falls between spaces? There is a space between our eyelids that is closed when we blink, it is as if it momentarily disappears then …
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