Today, I’m grateful for abstract thought, without which, we’d be pale shadows of the servants of Allah we are today, and that He gave to us to aid in our role as the Vicegerent for the rest of His creation.
If Allah didn’t want us dreaming, imagining, wondering, pondering, and otherwise using the big brains He gave us, He wouldn’t have given us the faculties He granted. Alhamdulillah.
I might think too much, sometimes, but Alhamdulillah I think!
With three or four days left in May, I managed to weasel myself into the May edition of @CraftyMoni‘s postcard swap.
tl;dr: I got the better end of the deal.
https://youtu.be/AWwLaNu6QCM
Today, I’m thankful for wudu. Alhamdulillah! Continue reading “Wudu”
Today, I’m thankful for the “different tribes.”
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.
Thanks to the differences between the tribes, we have all the different languages and cultural customs, we drive on different sides of the road, we can wear suits, thobes, and lungis, and we can enjoy sausage, schnitzel, kefta, kebab, and hambagu.
Life would be so boring if we were all the same. Continue reading ““different tribes””
Today, I’m thankful for this beautiful house. When I think about it, Allahu Akbar… what did I ever do to land here? Allah is truly great, and He knows best. He knows what we do not know, what we can’t even imagine. Allahu Akbar.
What do you get when you add some masking tape, a hand-rolled roll of Konica Pro 160, a bit of gaffer tape, and the plastic fantastic Debonair? Well…
You get Sprockets! Continue reading “Debonair Sprockets”
Today, I’m grateful for light, without which, we could not see. There would be no color, photography would not be my hobby, and reading would not be quite so easy as it is, at least in the ways we understand them now. But isn’t it fun to imagine what life would be like with only infrared or some other part of the electromagnetic spectrum to light the way?
All praise and thanks be to God for giving us the gift of light and enabling us, thereby, to see. Alhamdulillah!
