O Allah, make me a happy man, content with the immense bounties showered upon me. Ya Allah, take this inexplicable melancholy away from me. Ya Allah, lift me up.
My retirement, inshallah.
Some people say I’m too self-critical. I don’t think so. If anything, I’m overly lenient on myself. “Cut yourself some slack,” they say. “Give yourself more credit.” But I don’t feel that way. I feel bad about how lackadaisical I am. I don’t know how to make up for my grave shortcomings.
Right now, I’m really struggling. Admittedly, I have always struggled; it’s just that at times I manage better than at others. Still, I’m struggling so much right now that I can’t even be bothered to write this post. Demotivated. Lethargic. Disengaged. Heavy head. Brain fog. Immobile. Maybe I need a break and a change of …
Being united in injustice is not a unity worth celebrating. You’re not called to stand with your tribe regardless of what they do. You’re meant to stand for justice even if that means witnessing against yourself. O you who have believed, stand firmly for God, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of …
I honestly don’t know how some companies get away with their behaviour. One company provided a quote to a partner organisation amounting to a third of my monthly salary purely for scoping the work required to decommission a couple of websites. Perhaps those efforts include soliciting legal advice on the fine details of the organisation’s …
I don’t know the answer to the question. You said you’re not technical. I explained as best I could, taking into account terminology being used cross purposes by technical and non-technical roles. You said you still didn’t understand. I tried again, explaining it in the simplest way I possibly could, providing examples to illustrate. But …
When broaching the topic of possible future careers, our kids say exactly what I said at their age. The idea of an office job completely repels them. Any suggestion of a profession that might bring about stability in their lives is greeted with the same retort: “That’s so boring.” It’s difficult to dispute that observation. …
Does this article not ring a bell at all? The Daily Mail doing what it does best, be it 1938 or 2023.
Almost three years to the day since first setting out the case for a team, I’ve dropped my detailed business justification. In the first iteration, understanding that funding forever eluded our entire service, I went down the apprenticeship route. I hoped for four apprentices, but my colleagues in IT Operations had the same idea, so …
The speakers of Arabic and Aramaic languages are semitic peoples. The irony of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in European capitals about anti-Jewish racism is that the most vocal treat these other semites exactly the same. For generations now, they have been dehumanised daily by our popular media, their lives considered of little …
If you justify the mass killing of civilians and destruction of their infrastructure, you’re an extremist. It doesn’t matter whether you wear a suit and tie, or a balaclava. It makes no difference if you speak impeccable English with a posh accent, or speak a foreign tongue. Whether you invoke the defence of Western values …
The thing about many of our national newspapers: they don’t remember, nor do they learn. Case in point: stories about attacks on Poppy sellers over the past few weeks, stoking up anger at peace protesters, turn out to be completely untrue. But alas there will be no consequences for these scurrilous journalists desperate to radicalise …
Who’s going to win, you ask? Nobody, for everyone is a loser in war.
