apropos of anything

The men during prayer at Al Farooq, possibly maghrib just after iftaar, or maybe taraweeh during the week. Click on the image to go back to the original Flickr page.
Friday night was khatamul Quran at Al Farooq (and at ICNF, and in Augusta, and, I’m sure in half a dozen other mosques around the metro [...]

The Shaamir wedding has come and gone (and of course the pictures are on Facebook already), leaving us all with just enough time to turn our focus elsewhere: Ramadan. It has arrived. Quietly, this year, or possibly that was just me, since I’ve been caught up in the Shaamir extravaganza for the past couple of [...]

U.S. religious freedom is being eroded, advocates say.
Perhaps I should reconsider that invitation to join the Islamic Speakers Bureau…

The night before Eid, I wrote briefly about this year’s hajjis and my envy that I was not among them, and I promised to explain further the next morning when I was not so tired. Three mornings have come and gone, and still I have not explained, and even now I am not going to, [...]

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This past weekend I attended an event that had been billed as girls-only, so I took advantage of the opportunity to dress up a little and to actually do my hair.
(For those who don’t wear hijab — [...]

Hope it was wonderful…
…but to be honest, I miss Ramadan.

I brought my mother the tea she requested, and as I handed it to her, the woman sitting next to her said hello.
“She always asks about you,” my mother said.
“Yes,” her friend agreed, “I always ask about you, but you never come talk to me.”
I wanted to say, well, I don’t go talk to a [...]

It really is. We’re only sidetracking for a teensy second.
I spent hours looking for pizza recipes because I wanted to serve pizzas at iftaar (which I did, a variation off Allie’s Mushroom Pizza), and now that it’s over, I find this page with all sorts of lovely pizza ideas. I’m writing about it here so [...]

We’re halfway through Ramadan now. I had hoped for something different. Something like last year (which at least means I met my goal for last year, that I should look back and think, if only I could do as much as I did last year).
When I read back through that post, I’m in awe of [...]

A raindrop in Atlanta means catastrophe on the roads. The interstates grind to a halt, and all the lovely maps on Georgia Navigator turn a blistering red, which means soon afterwards the surface streets are clogged with frenzied motorists who foolishly believe avoiding the major highways will actually get them home faster. Because of the [...]