We're different people now
From the Blog hammadmateenImagine yourself being struck on a busy road by a car or a bus. Imagine yourself lying on the road with everything that you were carrying scattered all over the place. Imagine wet clothes on your body; wet not by … Continue reading →pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
So why should I fast anyway?
From the Blog mehmudahrehman Originally written for Gulf News Opinion http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/so-why-should-i-fast-anyway-1.1850796 [image: dates iftar] The clock strikes four and I gulp down the water quickly. I hear the distant call of the Fajr (dawn) prayer and realise that for the next 15 hours, I can neither eat nor drink anything. I think warily of the fact that the girls have school almost half this Ramadan and pick-ups must be braved in the searing heat. It's not the food I mind giving up, I say grudgingly to myself, it's the water and the caffeine — and the sleep that gets interrupted when I wake up to eat the pre-dawn meal. I'm a grouch early in the morning and the idea of not being able to get a long lie-in irks me. "Why must I fast anyway?" I ask myself in a moment of restless, bpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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