Haya is for both men and women.
YouTube, give me back my weird recommendations… Wood turning, brick laying, oil painting, grass cutting, offgrid living, metal working, travel vlogging, tech reviews… That’s the crap I’m interested in. Not demagogues raging against the woke and religious nutcases anathematising their coreligionists. How on earth am I going to repair my algorithm and revert to the …
In the moment, unrequited love is the worst kind. But in reality it is the best, for there can never be a bitter row or painful breakup. On the contrary, the lionised will be honoured for eternity, forever held in high esteem, blind admiration never tested by the vicissitudes of life. Embrace what could never …
This will have to be my bugbear of the moment: YouTube videos which include the capitalised phrase “DESTROYED” in their title. “Such and such DESTROYS such and such.” It’s not that I’m expecting someone to literally destroy their opponent with their laser eye rays, turning them into a neat steaming heap of ash on the …
It’s funny: seven years ago I made multiple trips to and from Turkey alone, as if I was an international businessman, coming and going. But today the thought of a single trip fills me with anxiety. I don’t remember it being this hard.
In days gone by, whenever I witnessed people around me being driven into a frenzy by a claim or counterclaim, I would be the one found attempting to check the facts. When presented with a set of images, I would be there running them through a reverse image search to determine if they really were …
Knowing what I do about my soul, I’m so grateful I was made an inarticulate nerd. I shudder to think the damage I could have done had I been handsome, charming and influential.
Some of us will always be the butt of the joke when friends get together, no matter how many years pass by. We must be twenty-two years into this particular relationship, and the only thing that has changed is the way I’m described. It used to be some barb because I was so thin; now …
So many preachers preaching. So few apparently practising what they preach. Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves, while you recite the scripture? Will you not reason? Quran 2:44 These the words that spring to mind encountering the multitude of preachers that teem online. Would there be any need for such preaching if …
Worship none but God. Be good to your parents and kinsfolk, to orphans and the poor. Speak good words to all people. Establish and keep up the prayer. Pay the prescribed alms and give charity. Do not shed one another’s blood. Do not evict one another from their homes.
