There comes a time when you don’t want to settle for second best.
You just don’t want to.
You don’t want the next best thing
you don’t want the new and improved
you don’t want old and established
you don’t want tried and tested
you want a specific thing
i…
‘Oh, how perfectly lovely!’ cried Anthea. ‘Why, it’s like home exactly–I mean England–only everything’s bluer, and whiter, and greener, and the flowers are bigger.’
The boys owned that it certainly was fairly decent, and even Jane admitted that it was…
My advice to pious people who insist on trying to find their perfect spouse on Facebook, is please involve your families and refrain from needless drama and filmi scenes. So many people are fooled that inboxing and whatsapp communication is a good way of…
I’m a writer.
No matter what happens–
I will remain a writer.
I tried to put some other part of my personality first–
(don’t get me wrong, I am a Muslim first and foremost, before anything else)
but
after that
if you ask me
most people my age will say they are…
Every language has constraints that help make it comprehensible. If this sentence were in a different order, might you trouble have it understanding (you might have trouble understanding it). But in German, any speaker can put two unrelated words next to…
All my life
I stood with my hands open.
Palms upward.
(Supination, pronation.
Which one is supine, which one is pronated?
I kind of forget, at times.)
Anyway.
I stood with my hands open and waited.
And waited.
And waited.
I stood with my hands open and…
“The Virgin is closing”
says Rihanna.
But I say
look at all the cute babies!
There are going to be lots and lots of cute babies.
Cute babies shall overrun the earth.
What kind of world are we leaving for them?
Is it a kind world?
Is it a safe world?
Is it…
A LETTER TO YOU FROM SATAN
I saw you
yesterday as you began your daily chores.
You awoke without kneeling to pray Fajr.
As a matter of fact, you didn’t even say Bismillahbefore your meals, or pray Isha before going to bed last night.
You are so unthankful,…
Everyone likes to keep Facebook open
Everyone likes to keep an eye on Facebook
but
people think
that
by limiting their “shares”
they will fool their “Facebook friends” and “followers”
into thinking
that they are not actually
“wasting time on Facebook”.
Seriously.
I…
