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This is Muhammad (swt)

This is our Holy Prophet

Another 15 days

He's going to be detained for another 15 long days... just when I had hope that they'd let them out... el7amdulilah for everything... I just hope he's OK...
His family are amazing mashAllah... taking it very well...saw them last week... went to stand with them and his colleagues in a peaceful "protest" where he works... seeing his 10 year old standing bravely holding up a photo of her dad was heart wrenching ... she was so strong... so sure of what she was doing mashAllah...

Rabena yessabarhom w yehawwen 3aleihom...

I'm still around

Thank you all for your kind thoughts and prayers... I'm still around... just a bit mentally and emotionally exhausted... but el7amdulilah :)

Can't concentrate... have been praying and praying since then...
This has never been a political blog ...and it never will be... but I am frustrated and stressed out over what's happening here in Egypt... people getting arrested for no reason... people who believe in their right to express themselves... people who have the dignity to stand up and speak their mind...
Feels different when someone you know very well and is so very dear to you is one of those people... one of the most respectful men I've met in my life... calm, open minded, logical, thoughtful and so full of passion... I won't be able to say enough about him ... I can't think ...no news about him yet... all I can do is pray and wait for a call... I pray he is well... he had bypass surgery less than a year ago... I pray his wife and children are coping and are "saabereen"...

انا لله و انا اليه راجعون، اللهم أجرهم في مصيبتهم و أخلف لهم خيرا منها

يا رب، يا رب، يا رب، يا أرحم الراحمبن، يا مجيب الدعاء، ارفع الظلم عن المظلومين

Update: It's official... he's among those arrested... spent the past 2 hours on the net... searching and reading...found his name in more than one place... I don't want to believe it... I'm still in denial... please pray for him...

Update 2: Just got to know from his wife that he called last night 3:30 am... she says he sounds fine...knowing him .. he would sound fine... a man of such faith.. el7amdulilah... but his medication still hasn't reached him... detained for 15 days... only God knows if those are the first of many 15 days... again ... please pray for him and all those with him...

Ready?

Just not me .... or not me "yet" ... what do we think of when we fall in love and can't wait to get married? Of all the stuff we see in movies? Or of the bliss of being with the man of our dreams? We don't really think of the future .. do we? Restrict ourselves to the very, very near future... short term plans I'd call them... is that enough to be able to start a new "balanced" life? Do we know "why" we're getting married? Or what we want to do with our "new" life?

Was at a family gathering full of kids and noise, babbling and laughter... enjoyed it ... but kept getting weird feelings ... something like I kept getting detached and looking at things from another angle... watching my bro's wife with my adorable niece... and how all her attention is directed towards the needs of her baby girl ... everything she does or thinks of is controlled by this tiny amazing being.... she's happy doing that ... but exhausted and sometimes depressed.... not depressed in the sense of actually "depressed" ... but more of like thinking " Where is my me time?" ... does she even have time to think of that? I don't know...

My cousin was there too .... married with 2 kids... 12 and 8 years old ... hubby works at sea... she works and has all the kids' responsibilities, work, house etc... worn out at only 37 !

I don't know how I'd manage... I want to have time to do things... I do rush around ... but I still have time to sit and listen to my favourite doaa at night and sometimes cry from it's beauty as I "sing" along with the Sheikh.... I have time to wake up early and after praying fagr put Mishary Rashed on and let his enchanting voice fill my room.... I have time to think...to contemplate sometimes... time to read... time to work ... and time to pamper myself...

Maybe living alone and only with little bro before that has got me used to doing things that I may have not been able to do if I'd still been living in a "family" house....maybe I've grown to be too accustomed to completely managing my own time and life with hardly any interferences.... I come home when I finsh work ... whenever I want to .... I go out to run errands/ meet friends/ go to the mosque/ NGO ... all when "I" decide to go ... when I want to sleep ... I crawl into bed.... to wake up early next morning to finish designing something before running to the Centre...

Oh I don't know...I sometimes feel I may not be ready for the responsibilities of being married....

Made in Bangladesh

I just love that T-shirt ... my best friend got it for me all the way from Bangladesh back in '95.. was in high school... and loved pink pink pink .... it was a lovely shade of hot pink ... still is actually ... though may have faded a little ...(not a lot coz I take great care of it)... anyway ... wore it quite often till I got veiled.... but did I stop wearing it then? ... actually .. no ... wore it at home... am wearing it now... it's so comfy... and I love it's colour.... every time I wear it ... I look at the tag and remember my best friend in high school... hope she's fine wherever she is and whatever she's doing... never thought a present could last that long... or be used for that long...
Almost 11 years later... memories come rushing to my mind... when I look at the tag that says "Made in Bangladesh"...