Ramadan 2016 — Day 1

Untitled

Ramy Eletreby

The new moon peeks behind the shadow

As will we

This holy month of Ramadan

2016 — Eid

july 4, 2016

Nadia Q Ahmad

I finish iftaar, by myself at home. As I pray and rush through the Fatiha and any surah, any other surah, I think to myself that never before in my life have I been so afraid of the sound of the fireworks. This is the…

2016 — Day 28

Scenes from the Masjid.

Matheen Siddiqui

It’s quiet now but in an hour 
crowds of people will converge on this place.
Get here 5 minutes before that and you will get good parking.
It’s tempting to use the bank next door 
but don’t do…

Day 1

#1 Untitled

- Farhana Jahan

Day 10

Remember, they don’t know.

- Leanne Scorzoni

On the day love became legal
for more of the world, and Muslims asked
why they should support those kind
of people, I wanted to tell them
about Mum and her rescue cats
in the mountains of…

2016 — Day 15

Water

Khadija Anderson

Sheikh Hamza said that Allah bestows water as blessing or curse
climate change has proven that as fact

Almost Time

In 2014, I started an online writing group for people who were interested in the exercise of writing a poem daily for Ramadan. As a writer, I find writing healing, spiritually fulfilling, and cathartic. I know when I am writing, I am connecting with a something bigger than myself — and I was tired of…

Day 11

Oh my Beloved

-Ramy Eletreby

Which of your 99 names shall I cry out
To wholly express how grateful I feel
To be showered by your Love?

2016 — Day 22

Neither

Jordan Alam

The key won’t open the lock anymore.
The mirror isn’t mine,
The dishes neither;
I peer around corners knowing nothing.