January 2012
28 posts
Don't Carpe Diem. →
I decided just now that I’m going to be adding posts to this blog that aren’t only about my very best moments of the day — it’s all related anyway, but I wanted to share this awesome article a friend posted on Facebook, and one that is completely relevant to this journal of recording the “very best moments” of your day. Yesterday, as I was driving back home to...
Sunday, 1-22-12
Bismillah. Very best moment of the day — I have to think really hard about the best moment … there were just so many good ones today, mashaAllah — hearing this voice, seeing this smile, hugging this person, talking this way, smiling this way … maybe I should just say that seeing individuals who I traveled and performed Hajj with tonight was the situation in which I...
Monday, 1-16-12
Bismillah. Very best moment of the day — after loading my luggage, shoes and coat onto the security belt at the Detroit airport while hardly making eye contact with the Airport security guy, he asks me “Is that a hijab?” “Excuse me?” I say, looking up for the first time, convinced that I’ve misheard him. “Is that a hijab?” he asks again, with the...
Sunday, 1-15-12
Bismillah. Very best moment of the day — hearing Dr. Muneer Fareed retell the story of first moment of revelation that came upon the Messenger (peace be upon him) and describing how his wife Khadija (may Allah be pleased with her) responded to his doubt - “She understood him better than he (pbuh) understood himself” - and hoping that I can be like that for someone, and someone...
Wednesday, 1-04-12
What was the very best moment of your day? — an email from him.