ﺒﺴﻤ ﺎﷲ ﻠﺮﺤﻤﻦ ﻠﺮﺤﻳﻤ
Dear
Readers,
It has
been sooooooooo very long since I wrote on here that I am not surprised if my
readers gave up on me! So many things happened that I had no time to write at
all – school was intensive, the library computer time I had was limited, and
even more big – I GOT MARRIED!! J
From April
I had less time to write, since I met my future husband back then. If any of
you remember from my earlier posts this year, I was working on weekend as a
casual shop assistant in a fabric store. One of my colleagues knew I was
looking and told me that a regular customer had a son who was also looking. We
set up a meeting and the rest is history J I got married in mid-June
and moved out of my student lodgings to start my new life with my husband,
Ebrahim and his parents. Alhamdulillah, I bought my own laptop at last, but
only got online a month back. Then I was kept busy as we moved to our own
place. Now as I am settling in and my first year Islamic studies ends, I have
more time again to juggle blogging with housewife work. I am so excited to be
able to write again!
I have
been thinking quite a while of starting a new blog – in fact since March. As I
mentioned in two posts prior to this, my emphasis has shifted from the Muslim revert
life, to the need to integrate Islam in life. Now that I have been a Muslim for
almost two years, I find that, although my discoveries and learning about Islam
still come increasingly – and will do so until death – my focus dwells more on
pondering on the signs (ayahs) of Allah SWT in life. Even as a Catholic
Christian, it has fascinated me to see His signs in creation. I called these
signs “Clues in Nature”, seeing myself as a sort of Sherlock Holmes bent of
discovering traces of His Presence everywhere. As a Muslim, I am eager to
continue this search, for it presents the Creator to Creation, showing us that
there is a God – Allah Almighty – beyond everything.
Another
reason I would like to start a second blog, is that I can write about things of
this world from a Muslim standpoint, not emphasising the revert journey, but
that of the pilgrim looking for love letters from his or her God, directing him
or her onto the Straight Path to Jannah. Insha’Allah, I would like to write
about anything I find clues in– whether it is about animals, human nature,
business, trees, the sky, language, etc. – just to share the awesomeness and
wisdom of Allah; to celebrate His glory.
I do not
yet plan to shut down this blog entirely, but if I do seem too quiet, then
visit me at Clues in Nature J
Eid
Mubarak to all!
Assalaamu
Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakato,
Saadiqah
(*
