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| Firstly, Eid Mubarak!
Ramadan Update:
Kayla, Christine and Erin took their Shahada all in a 2 - week span!
Say TAKBEER
Allahu Akbar!
Sarah. A. had a son, he is named Eesa (Jesus).
MashaAllah, may he be light and guidance to others. AMEEN
Sr. Hanaa Gamal's brother passed away.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oon.
Indeed from Allah to do we come and to him is our return.
I leave for Bishkek on Saturday the 28th. Remember me in your du'aas!!
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| This is how real hydros talk. LOL I feel like I'm in hyderabad everytime I watch this....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4182082609305017177&hl=en
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Guess where my name belongs? lol, this is only the men because alot of the men have mutiple wives and stuff but I think I'm going to start working on one that includes daughters and wives inshaAllah. My dad's side of the family has a very colorful family history...
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| I spent 5 hrs today organizing all of our old photographs and putting them in their proper sets and stuff. It's amazing how well I remember almost every single picture. More importantly, I remember the emotions I felt when the picture was being taken and because of that, I was able to recall full events that took place before or after the picture was taken. I remember my brother's bismillah and me getting jealous because he kept getting all the attention. (The irony: I never got a bismillah of my own) I even remember that when I saw the developed pictures a few days later on and everyone was going on and on about how nice my brother looked in them, I remember being overtaken by anger and scribbling all over the pictures.
I haven't changed very much in those 15 years. I'm still a jealous person, I still get angry at stupid things and I still do stupid things when I'm mad, maybe not as much as before but still to some degree I do. Yet, sitting there, going through pile after pile of memories that led me into moment after moment of flashbacks, I couldn't help feeling like....you know...the dream's ending. It's me against the world now. My family's there but being half a world away from me, they won't be able to do very much.
It's a bit scary when I think about it but more than that...it's exciting. I'm blessed to have parents who would allow me to do something like this.
Finally, all thanks is due to The God ('Allah' in Arabic) who created us all and has power over us all. It is He who has blessed me and without his blessing I wouldn't be what I am today. May he continue to guide me in all my matters for noone knows the creation better than its creator.
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| There's this article in the Wall Street Journal talking about how Elle just launched a new fashion line in Lebanon, Jordan and Morocco that is directed towards Middle Eastern women. The reporter keeps talking about how these fully veiled women want to look 'chic' and 'fashionable' underneath.
You know, it really makes me mad how ignorant people can be. This whole westernized thinking that the world begins with them and the world ends with them needs to be destroyed. What peaks of arrogance would a people have achieved to think that they are the ones to contribute fashionable clothing to areas that have been in existent longer than themselves.
Here's a quote that really ticked me off:
"Women in most Muslim countries cover their bodies from head to toe in public in keeping with religious tradition. But underneath, a growing number of them are wearing elegant, fashionable and often-revealing attire."
Let's examine WHY this head to toe outer covering was actually prescribed to the Muslim women, shall we? This elegant, fashionable and often-revealing attire is the cause or the modest and simple outer-wear exists today. Fashion has existed in these countries when your land used to belong to the Natives of the land and you still had years till you made the transition from European to American. When you were stressing about calling your women flappers because they wore dresses that exposed their ankles, these covered women dressed so revealing that it would have given you a heart attack to know.
*sigh* When will these people outgrow their ignorance. The Wall Street Journal has just made a fool of itself
....to me.
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