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Archive for August, 2009

In the days leading up to Ramadan 1430 A.H.*, many a Muslim student encouraged me to attempt fasting for one day if not the entire holy month.  I thought about it, briefly.
You see, fasting for Ramadan is about more than putting yourself in the shoes of the impoverished; it’s about pleasing Allah and becoming closer [...]

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If the process of getting to a country is any implication of what you’re in for, the trip to Saudi never tells a lie.  Extensive visa applications, medicals, religious confessions, and heavy travel are all on the shortlist.  On our trip over this time, we encountered yet another “common” but new site for sore American [...]

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Welcome to the Big Leagues.
In case you weren’t already aware, it’s my birthday (+/- 12 hours) somewhere in the world at the time of this inaugural post.  I figured what better time to publicly showcase my new blog than on my birthday, when hundreds (if not thousands in this case) of people will inevitably be [...]

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