Whatever slows yourpace, thank it. Thank it for newnerves grown in the still.
— Naazneen Diwan
In response to the April 2016 story of the man kicked off a Southwest airplane for saying the word “inshallah”, a few of…
Alia Azmat
finally visited the masjidmufti saab would be proud
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…
Hajra Asaf Khan
Between reverence and remembrance,between patience and pietySomewhere between turning your tasbeeh in incessant declarations ofHis omnipotence
Aisha Ishtiaq
I wonder if my soul had asked, when it was up there with Allah, “can you make me the oldest,give me a body of a woman.”“Can you make me a daughter, a sister” I sit here on my couch, alone, no sounds, no voices…
Sahar Romani
(For Straight Muslims)
Could you not see me? There, at the mosque, shoulder to shoulder, in rows of prayer. I kneel next to you, my forehead blessed by a carpeted minaret, mouths whisper verses learned…
Jordan Alam
The key won’t open the lock anymore.The mirror isn’t mine,The dishes neither;I peer around corners knowing nothing.
Sabrina Gouache
Sunday day, Saturday
evening a hot church for a queer body prostrating
the feet of violence: a gun, a-gain
Taz Ahmed
Maybe he was right. Maybe the fact I wasn’t filled with a magical blessedness from fasting was a myth I was chasing. Maybe this time wasn’t meant for that feeling. He said he fasted too, but in a Christian way. And for him, the…