Put It In A Pipe And Smoke It

by Ayesha Posted on January 17, 2008

My students are cute.  Everyday I have such a great time in the classroom with my 4th graders.  Even if I’m having a terrible day, they always manage to make me smile or laugh.  And it isn’t even because they’re trying to cheer me up.  It’s just the way they are.

Take for example one day in Social Studies.  I was reviewing vocabulary words with them from the chapter.  I asked them, “Who can tell me what metropolitan means?”  One of them leapt up from his seat, and stuck his hand straight out frantically and said, “Sister!! Sister!! I know!! I know!!”  I asked him what it meant, and he said so confidently,

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Wake Up!

by Ayesha Posted on January 13, 2008

It seems like in this day and age, once a month I hear a case about some Muslim falling off the deen, and being led off the straight path. It is increasingly disheartening with each case I come across. And it got me thinking, what is the deal?

I remember learning a few years back while listening to a lecture series by Sh. Yasir Qadhi (Kitaab at-Tawheed) that the Qur’an always refers to that which leads people astray with a plural word form–dhulumaat. And what he pointed out was this is basically telling people there is literally an ARMY waiting to lead us astray.

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An Old Man & His Nightingale

by Ayesha Posted on January 11, 2008

An unearthed family gem
Dazzling and bright
Now crumbling back to the ground

Once my voice was a song for you
My face a light in your eyes
My presence a smile in your heart

I hold your hand, hoping
Your vacant glance disappears
“It’s Ayesha.”

Then it strikes a chord within
The memory of my music
Your hand tightens around mine

With each other we fly away
The same blood in our wings
An old man and his nightingale

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