Skip to main content

Featured

Dua and the Sharpening of Desire

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Earlier today I started to pray for my daughters to grow up beautiful and blessed, to have a futures brimming with good fortune, to be granted piety and happiness—in other words, to have it all— and then I stopped short. It felt as though I was about to jinx them, as though the enormity of my dreams for them was uncouth or even ungrateful. Pare it back, a voice in my head whispered. Don’t ask for too much. It required a strong anti-superstitious effort to utter a dua (supplicatory prayer) that encompassed the full range of what I desire for their lives to amount to: perfect, incomparably happy, glistening. On reflecting on this feeling, I realised that to desire fully is very difficult. A thousand obstacles stand in the way: fear of disappointment, the urge to negotiate, a difficulty in knowing what one truly wants, the shame in desiring at all. ~ Desire is a misunderstood and even a stigmatized feeling. Too quickly does it appea...
Post a Comment
Read more

about

hello and salam!

 thank you for reading my blog.

 I like philosophy and religion and thinking about how those things relate to one another. sometimes I have niggly-naggly questions that won't leave me alone and so I try to spend some time trying to come up with an answer to them. I am very blessed to have a caring husband who listens to me talk endlessly about them.

 I also like working in healthcare and trying to help people recover. but I probably won't post about that sort of stuff very much.

 I decided to make this blog in order to put down my thoughts in a coherent fashion so that they could be subject to more rigorous scrutiny. I doubt most of the arguments are original;  if I remember who said something, I will cite it, but unfortunately I have a poor memory and forget a lot of stuff. I am not sure right now how often I will be posting things. 

thank you for coming!

Popular Posts