Drawing a line under 2007

Some end of year bits and bobs. Firstly I would like to say: Thank you, Shukran, Gracias, Merci, Multumesc, Hvala, Danke and of course, Diolch yn fawr, to the following people: Denizens of my blogroll. I have been reading you avidly all year. You’ve provoked my thoughts and emotions and more often then not made [...]

As long as we are alive, our dreams will never die

“ Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always “ A statement made, some time ago, to a female political figure as equally controversial as Benazir Bhutto . Yesterday, for those who believe in luck, Benazir Bhutto’s luck finally ran out. Inna lilahi wa [...]

We Are All in This Together

Big hijab flutter to Baraka for the link to the BBC photograph and general inspiration. Eid Mubarak. I will admit that Eid Al Adha, always sneaks up on me. I don’t anticipate it in the same way as Eid Al Fitr. Like a lot of converts, I’m still trying to make my own Eid celebrations, [...]

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

Halal/Haram, Permissable/Forbidden, I can/I can’t, Why does a dog lick his bottom? Because he can. It is halal to live in a tent. You can live in a tent, on the side of a hill. No running water or electricity . You could even say living like this is in keeping with the Sunnah, a [...]

For Only

Dave at Every Land is Barcelona, Every Day is May Day, wrote a post giving advice to New Muslims. It is an excellent post and I especially liked this line: ‘Islam, to know the peace of submission to the most high, is not a culture, it existed before the Arabian peninsula even had people upon [...]