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This word has such enormous love in it, no? As if the love is all wrapped together in a thick shawl and for comfort and warmth. I have written about my brother Akhtar in the past. There were others, but … Continue reading →

I have to speak to the local University about the Human Rights and Islam in general and was searching for somethings from my past speeches when I came across this. I have no idea when I acquired this; It is … Continue reading →

TIME Where does it go? How does it fly? This Time, this elusive, slippery Time, it filters through the fingers, like water.Wasn’t it just yesterday that I stood at the corner of my street and played with my friends? We … Continue reading →

Perhaps you are thinking of me.Perhaps you are humming the tune we loved so much.Perhaps the wind is whispering to you that you should let your hair down,and make the sunshine disappear behind the darkness of your hair. A million … Continue reading →

My Muse refuses to let me touch herdoesn’t mind when she’s flirted by others~I scream at her and at her sadistic moralsbut she ignores me. My muse is a whore;she sidles up to the Toms and Dicks and Harrysof my … Continue reading →

I am the rustle of dried fall leaves,the ground up spice of a brown land,measuring my steps along the shorethe foam of waves caressing my feet I am a child of the earth,I am here, and I am everywhere;you have … Continue reading →

The stagnant mind rebelsdoes not want to rememberdoes not want to indulgeshuts the door, to the streets of yoreto the laughter of innocence; Wants to put hands over the earsand forget about the splashes onthe beach, and the white shellsin … Continue reading →

Why do we have to have borders and wars everywhere? Doesn’t the earth belong to you and me?So much darkness in so many hearts!Why are the clothes of this world,Stained by man’s blood. Screams echo through the corridors of my … Continue reading →

Last year, son Sayeed played in the annual “Sugar Cookie” Golf tournament, and was talking about the friend who was a Navy Seals who had come and what a good time he had. I told him, “Oh, wow, I wish … Continue reading →