thursday nights

Thursday nights means dinner with the muslim brothers. الحمد الله! the food is so amazing, it's like it's very own blessing. I want to know the secret to this truly ideal rice, but I don't know how to ask ("Ummm, how does your wife cook rice?"). I think I'll find a way to ask Obaid tomorrow, if I remember enshallah. It's always such an interesting experience.

Tonight, I learned that a muslim should be in touch not just with his أمه, but with his neighbors. If even one of his neighbors (or his muslim brothers and sisters) is starving, he should not feast. I'm continually enthralled by the generosity of Islam, truly بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. The idea of community is an idea that I need to become more active in. A few months ago I had the idea for a dinner co-op, trouble is I have too many night classes to organize and accomplish this. And I'm moving soon... =(

And I think about my christian cousins, and I wonder how this is going to come out, and be discovered. ماشاء الله I wonder why there isn't more interfaith activity, why there can't be more dialogue. Once you get beyond dogma, the similarities are numerous... course, it's the getting beyond dogma... Finding comfort in faith, that's something anyone with faith can relate to, and being in a world, but not of it.