The Jalal of "nombu haal*" Balanced by the Jamal of "nombu kanjee**" Ramadan Mubarak y'all *"Fasting state" (mental fatigue yet clarity) **"Fasting congee" (porridge of rice, coconut milk, fenugreek seeds, garlic, curry leaves, and chicken curry) - plus samosa and thoplan sambol

I mean, in Afar the word for giraffe is a bit like "long camel," so... Long-necked, spotted antelope it is 😆

Of course - the 'ulama of Shar' al-Simsim are nearly unanimous on this Only the Count disagrees

"Now eat your bones - there are demons in Jahannam right now who don't have any bones to eat"

Salawat in Jimma, Ethiopia from an unusual direction: West African Sahelian Islamic influence rather than the typical eastern Yemen-Somali-Harar route. An Ethiopian Tijani branch via a Shaykh from Bornu named al-Faqih (Alfaki, Alfa) Ahmad Umar Maqzara youtu.be/_z8iA-ICekc?si…

"Aqulu qawli hadha" will have a new meaning in the Butlerian jihad. Robot khatibs will be barred from the minbar

"And so then I said..." (Insert banger post here, filtering out all coal) "That's nice, honey" She may think she's patronizing you, but subconsciously the lady is intrigued and entertained (this only works if she's not herself on Twitter) Don't knock it 'til you've tried it

I still remember a girl in middle school hearing that I was fasting and saying, "That sucks" My blood boiled then, but now I'd just laugh and say, "You wouldn't get it" Ramadan teaches you patience (sabr) in days without worldly joys - and gratitude (shukr) in nights with them.

Nobody understands how the gaze of God (and as part of that, the gazes of the prophets and saints and angels) maintains the order of the world like a father who turns his gaze away from his sons to scroll on Twitter, only to hear their peaceful playing unravel into violent chaos.

When you hear certain titles of the Prophet (S), you invariably hear them in the voice of the scholar you listen to who loves to use them the most - may Allah reward them for connecting us to them: Sayyid al-Kawnayn (Shaykh Shadee) Others?

And at the same time, for a reminder that any talismanic properties are still just dust under the bare foot of a sincere worshiper.

For the instrumentally inclined, my cover of a traditional Arsi Oromo nasheed in his praise and in praise of God, as arranged by the late, great Ali Birra (may the earth rest lightly upon him): youtu.be/c0GqnqQ16bQ?si… Hope to visit both of them one day - assalaam alaykumo....

Still, what makes a novel good is: Novel-ty, that is, inimitability. If you can be easily summarized, AI can replace you. But if you've written a "young man fights golems but also works in a café on a coin-shaped yet elemental yet postmodern yet elven yet Islamicate world..."

The Midwest is funny because you'll have transformative life experiences which make a place feel like a mystery adventure setting in the movie of your life, and then you'll come back and be like, wait, that's all it was...? And yet, that's all it had to be.

Somewhere out there is a guy married to multiple women of rival ethnicities, and every time they argue it turns into geopolitics and whose ancestors invented yoghurt or something

"There are certain whitepills we musn't talk about, no matter how true they are"