grief
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I haven’t written since October 7th. For so many people around the world, that day is significant. For others, especially here in the United States, I fear, it was just another day. Because I am in the former group, as the days went by, I increasingly felt unable to write. How could I write a…
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1445 started just a few days ago. For any non-Muslims who may be reading this, you may be thinking, “What?” The Islamic (Hijri) calendar is a lunar calendar and the first year marks not the advent of Islam, but rather the hijra or migration from Makkah (Mecca) to Madinah. The timing of the new year…
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This is most likely the last post I will write before this Ramadan is over. While I cannot say that it will be definitively, given that I’m pretty exhausted after work on the week days, it’s a safe assumption. Not counting today, which is almost over, there are four days left of fasting. Four days…