And he [Jacob] said, “O my sons, do not enter from one gate but enter from different gates; and I cannot avail you against [the decree of] Allah at all. The decision is only for Allah ; upon Him I have relied, and upon Him let those who would rely [indeed] rely.” وَقَالَ يَا بَنِيَّ …
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One Roll, Two Years (at least)
Most of the time, I have multiple little personal projects going on, all with various levels of importance both to me and in relation to each other. I don’t find this an unusual character trait: it seems as if others operate similarly. In the sphere of Photography-related projects, I got interested in film shortly after …
Ramadan: different gates (2)
All praise and thanks be to God for guiding me to His beautiful religion, and may he grant me the strength and will to become a better worshiper, husband, son, neighbor, friend, worker, and in all of the roles and doors and gates He opens for me, Ameen.
Ramadan wrap up: what can we do?
In the first 6 months of 2016, Chicago saw 312 homicides and 1,949 total shootings. In the same period, U.S. Police killed 536 people, 49 of them in Texas, and there were 163 mass shootings, some by ‘Muslim extremists’, most just random acts of violence by unstable people. A Muslim was shot and stabbed yesterday morning on his way …
New Toys: Nikon FE
After dealing with what I thought was something broken in the FG for two months, and after finally paying off some debts that had been hovering over us for awhile, and after doing a bunch of research, I bit the bullet and picked up another film SLR. Initially, I wanted to get a Nikon FM3a, …
Road Trip! Chicago to Memphis
Thursday morning, we got started pretty early: up for Fajr, then around the corner to Peet’s, for a change (though Dunkin Donuts coffee is better, really…), where we ate out on the street and enjoyed the cool morning air before packing up the car and heading south. We stopped after an hour or two and …
Kono Kolorit 400
I’m sometimes a sucker for sale flyers from camera stores, especially when it comes to Lomography’s rather regular new film announcements. I was able to resist for several months, but Lomo sent me a $10 off coupon that was about to expire—I’m a sucker for that stuff too, apparently—and so I jumped on some Kono Kilorit 400 …
