Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Rajioon First off I would like to say JAzaka'Allah to all the wonderful duas and kind words by everyone in emails and on my blog. Even people who's blogs I never visit had the most uplifting duas for me and I truly appreciate it. Thank you all once again and may Allah shower his mercy upon you all. Its been almost a week now since dad passed away. Allah truly is the best of planners. Just last night I was talking to a good friend of mine on the phone who was trying to help me get my head straight. The night before he passed away, dad was feeling so much better, we were sort of comfortable leaving him on his own and the nurses said the same thing. My friend's mother had been in the hospital for the last couple of days and yesterday was the first night my friend didnt stay over. About an hour or so ago, I received a text from her saying her mom has passed away. It absolutely breaks my heart to think what she must be going through as I know the feel...
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Not enough Uncharacteristically, first thing Saturday morning, before I even washed up, I turned on the television in the living room. What I saw I could not believe. I cant bear the thought that I have a Sehri every morning and an Iftar every evening while there are people fasting and sifting through rubble at the same time. People who have not got anything left to their name are still helping others selflessly. Eloquence was never my thing and ofcourse there are people out there who can express their feelings much better than I can. All I can say is, please please please donate. Donate whatever you can... no wait.. donate a bit more than that. We still wont be going hungry, we still wont be homeless, cold or without the basics which we take for granted. If we dont spend a bit on ourselves this time it wont ruin us. All the major organisations are taking donations. Do your bit, clothes, money.. whichever way you can, just do it. And pray our efforts go a little bit towards easing the ...
One step forward and two steps back I have to admit July has been quite an interesting month. Notice, I use present tense even though July is obviously yesterday's news now (well not literally yesterday but you know what I'm getting at). It seems like July hasnt finished yet and August hasnt rolled around just yet. Ok I know that sounds stupid but in my head it makes sense and this being my blog, I can do what I want. Its a free blog and I'm allowed to say what I want. July has had its fair share of incidents ofcourse. It all kicked off with good ol' Bobby Geldof putting together (quote) the greatest music extravaganza of our generation (unquote) or so I read somewhere. It was ofcourse for Africa and all in conjunction with the G8 summit in Scotland. It was ofcourse to get the G8 leaders to sit up and listen to the general public. No offense bobby, but before the Iraq war, MILLIONS turned out the world over on a single day to march against the proposed attacks. And what...
I'm still around.. just well.. everytime I think of something to blog about, by the time I get to the computer I've forgotten what it was and then I'm a blank again. I walk around with a frown on my face a lot these days... and in reply to everyone's "it takes 7 muscles to smile and 42 to frown" lecture, i've come up with.. "if it takes 42 to frown and 7 to smile, I might as well frown as I burn more calories that way". Usually works.. oh well... Still around.. still confused... I duno...
