Go go
March 20th, 2004 byPatience itself must surely be a patient entity.
For time, it’s cousin, is met with smiles everytime.
A sunnah observed, a sunnah performed.
This will not be eloquent. This will be brief:
I’m moving again. This time, not cities, nor states. I’m flying out of DC to Lahore. Insha-allah, there I will be met by my mother, sister and monkey neice who surely misses her Waleed mamu when she remembers.
I’m not sure where I’m headed. I’m never sure when I move.
I just know that I have to walk confidently. Confident of my Rabb.
I have to run now.
March 21st, 2004 at 2:52 pm
update from JFK:
everything is okay alhamdulillah.
Insha-Allah, I will update when I get internet access, whenever that may be.
March 21st, 2004 at 3:22 pm
You’re still at JFK?
March 21st, 2004 at 4:01 pm
You’re moving to Lahore?
It’s so hard to keep track of you these days, Waleed, you give a new meanng to the term nomad.
Take care, stay safe, have fun! =)
March 21st, 2004 at 10:03 pm
Have a safe trip and a beautiful reunion with your family, Waleed.
I don’t think we ever really know where we’re headed; that’s the frustrating yet beautiful thing about life. May your destinations be well worth the wait, insha’Allah.
March 22nd, 2004 at 11:48 pm
i hope you have an incredible time, despite the inconsistency of not knowing where the destination will end up. anticipation is exciting though… and sometimes Allah swt is the only consistency in this dunya… and no harm in that i think… no harm at all. praying you’re havinga wonderful time bro.
March 25th, 2004 at 12:49 am
For some odd reason, whenever anyone comes to Pk, I feel like doing the Simpsons point and laugh thing and saying “Hah hah, you’re in Pakistan!” All I can say in my defence is, I gots brain damage. 0_o
March 25th, 2004 at 2:11 am
hahaha now that’d be a great welcome, Owl. I should try that as a send-off for all friends and relatives traveling to there…with the funky nasal gloating laugh that I’m not quite sure how to transliterate: “eyyy heyynn, you’re going to Pakistan!”
March 27th, 2004 at 6:41 am
Insha’allah you’ll have safe trip..and nice time
March 27th, 2004 at 3:04 pm
running around the globe are we, waleed. have fun in pakistan. you get to miss out on snow too. (Y)
stay safe
March 28th, 2004 at 9:18 am
your monkey neice is a cutie. have fun while you’re here and remember that your survival tactic is to have a sense of humor about everything. a safe trip inshAllah.
March 29th, 2004 at 4:53 pm
“monkey niece who surely misses her Waleed mamu when she remembers”
oh, I’m sure she remembers. all the time.
how could she forget the mamu that hides her in washing machines and giant supermarket fridges?
I just spent most of the last 10 days with my 2 yr old nephew.. subhanAllah, there really is nothing like the laugh — or the tantrum — of a child. =)
April 3rd, 2004 at 12:28 am
oh man, waleed i was with this 4 month old baby today … who SMILED at me. it was this huge, open adorable SMILE.
yo, babies do not smile at me man.
and this one laughed too.
wo.
i’m too touched.
don’t spoil your neice toooo much, ya heard? don’t wanna give her cavities.