wisdom

I might not be able to write much for awhile…we’ll see. Please make du’a for me (don’t worry…alhamdulillah nothing is wrong). In the meantime, let me leave you with a hadith which is full of so much wisdom. It is related in Sahih Muslim, and is also found in Imam al-Nawawi’s Riyadh al-Salihin under the [...]

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I want…

One of the unique challenges we face is discerning what is best for us. As Americans, we are filled up with the idea of, “Go for what you want,” “Live your dream,” or “Don’t settle.” All of these ideas imply that we have a banquet before us, and that all life is really about is [...]

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Dear God, Sincerely Me

Dear God,
Thanks for never giving up on me. You’ve seen me at my worst. It’s weird…I guess that I sort of tried to erase those times from my memory. Or at the very least suppress them. But You knew that I was just being me. You understood where I was coming from.
But it’s hard for [...]

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Heaven and Hell

I have been so filled with joy that my heart literally feels like it might burst, no longer able to handle what He has put inside of it. All thought of yesterday and tomorrow fades, leaving only the bliss of the moment, which I hope extends into eternity. This is but a small taste of [...]

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being white, being muslim (part 2)

There is something almost pre-cognitive about what “being white” means for me. Of course, identity is to a certain extent socially constructed, but there is also something deeper. It’s as if Allah put you into the world in a particular time and place, and surrounded by certain people, for a reason.
I am a convert. For [...]

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being white, being muslim

We have no community of our own. We are nomads. We are white Muslims.
Yes, my skin is white, but is that what it means to be white? No, there is something more. To be white is to inhabit a unique cultural identity, but to not even be aware of its particularity. It was only upon [...]

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