the weekend
:)assalamualiakum wa rahmatullah!
Where to begin........
ummmmmmmmmm how about..........friday :)
On Friday I went to the Strawberryfest as a stinky old senior, and the islamic center was representin with a booth in which we did free arabic 'calligraphy' and gave out fast-a-thon shirts for free. Alhamdulilah i must say that we were one of the most popular tables there. Tons of people came up to us and wanted to get their name written in Arabic, while they waited we chit-chatted about Islam and Arabic. While i was on line purchasing my NYU Seniors sweatshirt i saw this girl like staring at me...naturally i assumed she was attracted to my radiant face (lol jk), but then i realized that this has never happend in the past and thus is not the case, not trying to dwell on the situation i looked her way and flashed a million dollar smile, and she, alhamdulilah, returned it. So she came closer and was like "do you remember me" and i ofcourse did my :) uhhhhhh face..where im thinking of all the possible place i could have seen this gori (white) girl...so she put me out of my misery and was like remember you came to the senior class meeting to talk about the fast-a-thon earlier in the year, and i was like oooooh yeeeeaaaaa, i remember you and so she's like
"i saw you a couple of weeks ago at the protest/teach-in, i sat and listened to your talk, and i was brought to tears, and began to cry, what you said about your Prophet and your religion was beautiful, i told everyone in my masters' program and they were all sorry they missed it" , so at this point, im like wait what...but she basically said thanks, and i think read the confusion on my face and jetted. Anyway after the many hate emails it was a breath of fresh air to hear positive feedback from a non-muslim :)After the strawberry-fest i did NOT attend my first islamic center meeting...sad face...but alhamdulialh its a great eboard and i wish them allllllll the best :)
Now i will proceed to the Sadia's Bridal shower part of the post. After Jummah, after the strawberryfest, and after lunch, dora and i headed down to canal street to pick up sadia's bridal shower cake. Along the way i stopped off and spent a lot of money on a lot of unnecessary clothes that don't fit me that i have decided to "gift" to other people...but alhamdulialh its all good...we finally made it down to canal street 2 hours later (not good considering its like a 15 minute walk), and go to the chinese bakery where we ordered the cake from. To our surprise they didn't "get" our order but promised us the 6-pound cake would be done in........30 minutes....30 minutes! I can't even boil water in 30 minutes..but sure enough they did make the cake in 30 minutes. After this dora struggled with the 6 lb cake and i ran outside to find a cab......while i was doing this many individuals on the street proceeded to laugh at us, ask both dora and i if we were muslim, and many other random things. Finally the cab driver pulled over, and when we got in he was laughing and asked "are u going to a birday", and we responded in the negative. We finally reached back to our building to realize that the elevator is broken, so we had to take the service elevator up...after we got back to our apartment we all started packing our things for our mini-vacation to Jamaica (queens :)). I was very impressed at our light packing, we all (nadia dora maghrib and myself) managed to get our things in one pullmen, however we also had maghrib (the cat), the 6 lb cake, the wedding favors, and many other good things. We finally after many dramatic instances on the street, including one broken car window, dora's skirt flying up up up, almost getting stuck in the turnstile and muggy's constant crying and whining made it onto the subway. Maghrib then proceeded to cry the whole one hour to sadia's house.
The rest of the weekend is extremely girly so i will leave it out, however i will mention some points.
1- on friday night maghrib greeted us at 3 in the morning with a 'gift' in her mouth, looking at her the roomates and i couldn't really decipher what this gift was, and thought maybe she found a dustball or a toy, however we saw this 'gift' move and realized....it was a mouse...so we all screamed very very loud which made maghrib and the mouse excited which made muggy drop the mouse, which made us scream more...and yes...it was all very exciting..after this i had a huge jihad un nafs because i had to pray isha and i was really really scared hte mouse would dance on my head when i made sujood, but i won the jihad and did pray !
2- sadia kalam is the cutest bride in the whole entire world. MashaAllah mashaAllah mashaAllah :)
3- bridal shower games are mad fun
4- the cake was soooooooooooooo good
5- someone who i had met for the first time came up to me and told me i was a really loud/aggressive/good leader type of person, and the two girls that were next to her were liek yeaaaaa she was our president at the msa so she has practice..the girl laughed and was like ohhhhhhhh thats why everyone listens to you...i didn't realize this was true until we were all sitting around doing nothing, and everyone was trying to get the other to dance, at which point i looked at one of the girls and was like "so and so, DANCE" so she got up and danced..lol ...at this point one of the girls was like whoa how'd ud o that..and the girl was like dude when maheen tells u to do something u do it... :)
6- weddings and all related activities are extremelyyyy sentimental; you should always carry a pack of tissues :)
7- once again im making a list :)
8- the highlight of the night was after maghrib when we sat down, recited some quran, read a dua, and sang some nasheeds... :)
9- Muslim girls are the bestttttt :) (and dora :))
So this was the first of the wedding summer '06 season, but inshaAllah there will be much much more to come (11 weddings i've counted)! May Allah subhana wa ta ala bless the brides, the grooms, their families, their guests, and you, and me :)
ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen....
wassalamualaikum wa rahmatullah
beace in the middle east!
posted by Iqra Bismi Rabbika @ 1:06 AM
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