Asma Maryam Ali

Where is your face when it matters
Your eyes see much more than you know
You stand tall behind thin air and towers
The time comes, you are empty and cold.

You claim to have so much to give of yourself
Of what matters the most you have none
The world rests on assumptions and patterns
You do well with the worst of them.

Where is that passionate warrior
Who loves more than he fears
Her quiet revolution
Will one day change the world.

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Friendship IXX by Khalil Gibran

And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”

Your friend is your needs answered.

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

And he is your board and your fireside.

For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own
mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all
expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not
love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

And let your best be for your friend.

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing
of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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Tae Kwon Do literally means ‘the way of the hand and foot’.

Martial arts are really a beautiful sight to behold, yet as one observes this art she wonders which ‘way’ these hands and feet are really moving, and if she can make it her own, eh?

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(Note: the music may take away from the performance) 

Check out ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Muslim’ for interesting information on Muslims and Martial Arts.

 Jazakum Allah khair for reading and observing I would love to read your thoughts on ’sisters’ and jazaki Allah khair Sawitri for sending yours, too. I have just added a reflection of my own to it.

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