The Chai Response:

In honor of the previously established Official Anti-Invaider blog, the sole objective from which what you see here had developed from, I have responded, in defense of chai:
you avoided me and so i’m gone
your sugar rush and highs are done
starbucks and carribou,
ha, tis the price you pay when you
audaciously drink lipton too!
cry for me, no [...]

Fruitless Knowledge

I was wondering today, how little, in our search for ‘ilm,’ we appreciate what we’ve learned already. Many times the nuances of information sometimes overshadow the mountain loads of meaning behind just a few words of our Beloved Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم .
The same words we’ve memorized so long ago, sitting in the banks [...]

A Butterfly in Egypt

A saw a butterfly today. Well, I glanced at it. I did take a second look, but it was maybe for half-moment and not much more.
Immediately reminding me of the fields at Hutchison Elementary, at recess, the site of my early holding grounds.
A rush came over me, particularly about the different sense of time back [...]

What a difference a day makes

Inna lillahi wa inna elayhi raji’un.
To Allah we belong and to Him we return.
 
Ain’t that the truth.
 
‘Eid Mubarak’ and no more Siyam.
No more waking up early to get in a few prayers before fajr.
No more meeting up at ihop with the boys to sneak in the last few bites of the day. 
No more eager fasts [...]

Looking for love in all the wrong places

I sought her, I thought I did.
Dreams of romance on Alexandrian beaches
I thought I’d wed her, to marry, I said.
Love may live, but may die, too
In situations out of our reaches.

So, as I sit now, reflecting on my day-trip to Al-Iskandaria (Alexandria, Egypt), I think now of all my intentions, and how if only—if only [...]

Who says you don’t need wudu for al-Mawrid?!

One afternoon, as I was with a dear friend of mine, his sister reached for the ‘Mawrid,’ a dictionary. Immediately, we both jumped up to scoldingly ask her if she had wudu. Knowing it wasn’t the Quran, she apologized profusely and admitted that she was bereft of ablution. Obviously, we laughed at the situation…
…but today [...]

As-Salaatu Khairun min…

In a few short days, I’ve realized how unnatural our daily lives are. How we neglect our own natural states and deny the natural rhythmic patterns of our bodies.
Current Lives:
Fajr. Sleep. Breakfast on the run, if any. Commute to work, possibly late. Stress out on the way to work. Worry about every ring on the [...]

My Bum’s in England!

My journey on the path towards knowledge as begun, first stop, London, England. I need to be careful around here…’bum’ is taken in a totally different way
Two days without parents, friends, family and…the internet. Its been a tough travel.
Alhamdulillah, as I meet more Muslims around these parts, I’m realizing the different nuances that [...]

I Prefer to Take My Business Elsewhere.

I enjoy reading business books, articles about psychology, theories on economics, about the way societies and people work, and about how life works in general. I’ve taken a multitude of business training seminars, attended many lectures on the ethics of business, decision theory, and even listened to many experts speak about what “makes people tick.” [...]

7 Habits of Less Than Effective People

I came back from jummuah, as I usually do, though admittedly, at varying times, and I saw this on my board. See at work, I put up this board to write anything “non-business” on–the only rule is that its not business related. Many times they are random jokes, many times just shots at each other, and [...]