Saturday, October 23, 2010

Dear God,

Thank You for making me Muslim. I feel like... it gives me a chance to be a voice for Islam and Muslims to a lot of my non-Muslim friends. I don't know if I'm a very accurate voice for Islam, not because I think anything I believe is bid'a or whatever, but just because... I don't know if there's such a thing as an 'accurate' voice for Islam. At least not the way we (humans) have manifested Islam as a specific, direct and daily manifestation of faith, doctrine, textual interpretation and historical narrative, etc. But I think I'm an honest voice, at least I hope so, and I tell people that really this is all I can offer them: not accuracy but honesty; not definitive answering, but balanced conjecturing and questioning and a modest core of inshaallah unflagging belief.

:) Thanks.