Sunday, October 12, 2025
Discomfort
Saturday, October 04, 2025
Search
Istafada is over. I’m on the way home and thinking about the past week. It’s not been that long, but I’m ready to go home and do more to learn more.
My “cup” is full. It won’t get emptied so I can come back next year. It’ll get bigger. And then it’ll get filled again. This beautiful cycle will.
I no longer feel frustrated when I hear something like aenda bayan awse inshallah. Rather, I feel excited.
I’m leaving knowing that the truth is not somewhere in the distance. It never was. I’m searching for it and know where to look.
Taher, the search is the point.
Speed
Thamakun si. There’s a lot of meaning to these words that I’m realizing.
Speed makes such a difference. Such a difference here in Surat, such a difference in life, such a difference on earth. Sabr is the right speed. This means slow almost all the time. Not fast.
Going fast is not an option anymore. Alhamdolillah. Going slow doesn’t have to be the default though. It can be a choice. You get where you’re going when you get there and you get what you get when you get there.
Taher, do what you can do. Get there slowly.
Thursday, October 02, 2025
Smile
Something I learned a long time ago is at the forefront of my mind. “Hasto chero mohabat nu jaal che” or a smiling face is love’s web.
This means a lot. Love is a trap.
A genuine smile is more than moving some muscles in your face though. A smile is borne from the soul and borne from love. It just manifests on your face sometimes.
Taher, it only takes one thing. A person may share something or go through something. It might be appropriate to say something. It might not. It may be appropriate to smile with your face. It usually is. Sometimes it may not be though. It is always appropriate to smile with your soul.
The other person will “see”. Trust. One hundred percent they will.
Perhaps trap isn’t the right word. You want to get stuck in this.
Taher, smile more.