From Darkness Into Light: COVID-19 and its deafening silence

‘I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat in silence for three days’ (Hafez)

Jesus Christ – the Radical Revolutionary

And in their footsteps We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming the Law that had come before him: We sent him the Gospel: therein was guidance and light, and confirmation of the Law that had come before him: a guidance and an admonition to those who fear Allah. [Al Qur’an, 5:46]

Between Consumerism and Purification

And he (Imam Ali) did not eat meat except a little and would say,
‘do not make your hearts a graveyard for the animals’

(Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, Nahj Al Balagha, Vol 1)

My pure homeland, I roam

… The land in which Chishti delivered the message of God The garden in which Nanak sang the song of Tawhid of GOD For which people of Hijaz abandoned the Arabian wilderness That same is my homeland, that it is my homeland … I begin writing this in the depths of the night, for I […]

A Different Kind of Death

‘die before you die’

إبتدا | beginnings

This is something I have been meaning to do for eons, but never found the courage nor time to organise my thoughts into a few words.