Fasting

2017: Day 4

WHAT HOLDS US INTACT, DESPITE OUR LONGING TO BREAK OURSELVES OPEN, TO RUN AWAY, TO DESCEND DEEPER INTO OUR OWN IMPERFECTION

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…

2016 — Day 17

Speak

Asim Rehman

We may spend our days
Speaking Truth to Power
But in moments of recess
When we turn to the East
And let our heads touch earth
And open our hearts to sky
We speak to the Power of Truth.

2016 — Day 16

Unworthy

Alia Azmat

When did you learn you were unworthy

Was it when she stopped packing lunches 
Was it when you stopped asking for help in arithmetic
Was it when you realized they didn’t have all the answers
Was it when…

2016 — Day 15

Water

Khadija Anderson

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

2016 — Day 14

Punk Rock Ramzaan

Zuha Khan

“I brought dates–for everyone!” I exclaimed with a wink. 
First band practice of Ramzaan and my mates were down to make dinner together.

2016 — Day 13

Or Rumi

Zahra Noorbakhsh

If Rumi were alive in 2016 he would have been killed with 49 other innocents at Pulse, 
the hottest gay club in the heart of Orlando.

2016 — Day 7

ode to dancing on the underground

Sabrina Ghaus
in the midst of metallic frames stacking their
mechanized steel arms towards heaven, at a place
called back bay station a man plays
his heart on a guitar and a girl abandons her lover
to dance
Guantanamera…

2016 — Day 5

Roots

Saima Husain

Lying in bed in the pre-dawn hours my brain conjures up images of my heroes and inspirations. As they take shape and line up in front of my eyes I’m amazed by how they are mostly unapologetically Black, some unapologetically Muslim…

2016 — Day 4

Untitled

Zohra Saed

coconut water, watermelon, and cucumbers for hydration
prepping iftar dinner, second dinner, and suhoor for my loved ones
baking bread for the family to further create this amber film over the apartment. so that we are no longer…