بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
WORD IS BOND
I Feel Your Presence
Every Now And Again
I Turn Around Expecting To See You
And I Feel You Gazing
From Your Picture
Smiling Back At Me
And It’s Almost
Just As Good
Month: May 2015
For Life….
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
CHESTNUT EYES
EYES THE COLOR OF CHESTNUTS
BRILLIANTLY BROWN
GLOWING
NOT WITHHOLDING
THE FIRE BURNING WITHIN
DEEP DOWN
UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE
IT’S LOVE
(FOR ME)
YOU CAN’T HIDE IT
IT’S THERE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE
IF THEY KNOWIN’…. 😉
ESPECIALLY ME
YOU CAN’T DENY YOUR LOVE FOR ME
* * * * *
SWEET AS CHOCOLATE DEMEANER
A DEMEANER AS SWEET AS CHOCOLATE
MILKY AND AS SWEET AS CHOCOLATE
AN HONOUR FROM FIRST GLANCE
JUST TO SEE YOU IN YOUR B-BOY STANCE
HUMBLED BY YOUR SALIENT GAZE
MY PURPOSE IN LIFE
IS TO PLEASE YOU
YOUR HIGHNESS
YOUR EVERY WISH IS MY COMMAND
I ADORE YOU
YOUR MAJESTY
YOU ARE MY WORLD,
– THE QUEEN
SPRING MITTENS
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
BISMILLAHI RAHMANI RAHIM
In the Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Most Merciful
To see the mittens in greater detail click HERE
As-Salaam-Alaikum Dearly Beloved Asiatic Sisters!
I was thinking with the advent of Spring, I wouldn’t be crocheting any warm weather attire, but it’s been unseasonably cold the last couple of days and we even had rain a couple nights ago! So, I’ve been bundling up with my crocheted hats and scarves and whatnot, but I have yet to replace my gloves.
I decided to crochet some mittens and these are very simple so I thought I would share the tut with my Beloved Readers! I was going to make them without the bumps, but they are a part of the pattern so I kept them. And they ended up being the most fun part!
I used a smaller hook and crocheted the stitches tighter so my pattern is a bit different. I also crocheted more bumps.
Anyway, if you have the wherewithal to create these wonderful mittens, comment and post a picture. Share your talent! 😀
As-Salaam-Alaikum!
PATTERN
Chain 10
One Returning Chain
Row 1 – Ten Single Crochet in Backloop
One Returning Chain
Complete 24 more rows
Connect edges
Remove hook and turn inside out
Row 1 – 42 Single crochet across top
Row 2 – Bump, 5sc (single crochet), bump, 5sc, bump sc to the end of the round
*Bump* – insert hook into backloop, yarn over, insert hook into next backloop, yarn over, insert hook into next backloop, yarn over, pull through first loop on hook, yarn over, pull through two loops on hook, yarn over, pull through last two loops on hook, insert hook into last stitch, yarn over, pull through loops on hook
Row 3 – sc entire round
Row 4 – sc entire round
Row 5 – Five sc, bump, five sc bump, sc, bump, sc to the end of the round
Row 6 – sc entire round
Row 7 – sc entire round
Row 8 – Bump, 5sc (single crochet), bump, 5sc, bump sc to the end of the round
Row 9 – sc entire round
Row 10 – sc until 9 loops from first bump, chain 9, insert hook 9 loops from chain, sc to the end of the round
Repeat pattern until desired length then decrease
*Decrease* Insert hook into backloop, yarn over, pull through, insert hook into next backloop, yarn over pull through, yarn over pull through all three loops
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MOTHER’S DAY
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
As-Salaam-Alaikum Beloved Sisters & Brothers!
Anyone who knows me knows that my Mom and I have an estranged and strained association. I’m not going to even say “relationship.”
I think she’s never liked/loved me because she couldn’t give my sister her fourth birthday party because she was in the hospital giving birth to me. The pictures are so depressing. I think she held (holds) that against me because she never threw another birthday party for any of us.
It’s all good though, because now that I am in THE NATION OF ISLAM, it just made not celebrating birthdays that much easier. Mother’s Day also.
I was kind of destined to have an estranged relationship with my mother. My mother wasn’t speaking to he mother when I was born. My grandmother found out about my birth from her cousin.
I told my hubby how I never felt like my mother ever loved me because she would buy my sister and brother whatever they wanted but not me.
He told me something that corresponds with the Holy Qur’an:
“But she gave you everything you needed!”
He told me that twenty years ago but it’s just now, that I’m a Muslim, starting to sink in.
So, thank-you Vanessa, for feeding and clothing me when I was little. Even though it feels like you did it out of duty rather than love. I never knew what it felt like to go to bed hungry or without shoes. I had toys and a comfortable bed. A roof overhead and a fairly happy childhood. I thank you for nursing me, enabling me to enjoy good health. Thank you for giving me respectable, somewhat decent boundaries. Thank-you for treating me like a slave so that now housework comes easy and is second-nature. Thank-you for buying wheat bread when my friends had white; fruit instead of cookies & candy.. Oh, and we always had Honey – My favorite – thanks to you!
Thank-you for that one time we baked Nestle Toll House Cookies, instilling in me my love for baking.
More recently, thank-you for letting me in the house a couple times when I couldn’t get in the shelter. That was a nice surprise after turning me away repeatedly.
However, I wish you had left my father, before I was born. He told me he left you because of something I had written in my diary! If you had left him he would never had had his nose in my business.
Thank-you for teaching me how to sew up the holes in my socks. I was shocked to learn, after living in shelters, how many women can’t even thread a needle!
But most importantly, thank-you for leaving West Angeles so we could go to Trinity where I Fell In Love With My Prince!
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!
FIRST KISS
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
Outside the Girls’ Gymnasium
I Think it was
Right After Lunch
Right Before Drill Team
(Maybe Not)
Hurriedly Excited
You Were
I Didn’t Know It Then
You Must’ve Been
What A Fool I Was
Not To See
How Madly In Love
You Were With Me
*****
Took My Whole Adult Life
To Realize
How Much That Kiss Meant
Wasted Nearly Thirty (30) Years
Trying To Find
A Substitute
For You –
Someone In Your Class (Stead)
Allah (God) Told Me
“IT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!”
No One In The Universe
Can Take Your Place
I Submit (Give Up)
To You
I’ll Spend The Rest Of My Life
Waiting
For
Another
One
❤
STUCK-UP?
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
I have the sinking feeling
I’m stuck-up
But I’m poor
I’m arrogant
But broke
Humble Pie is not at all sweet
I have high hopes
Watching other people smile
And smoke
Though MY pipe dreams
Are Very Much Undeferred
Undeterred
I shovel through the obstacles
Headed Steadfastly Toward The Light
Nose Lowered To Receive Assistance
From Friends In Low Places
Trying To Place The Faces
Forget The Names
They’re All The Same
Sorry.
Cut Me Another Slice Of Humble Pie
Trying Not To Think
I’m Better
Our Beloved Messenger (PBUH)
Taught Us To Be
“Humble Yet Commanding”
I Go From A Pedestal
To The Mud
In 2 Seconds Flat
Bi-Polarity
Is Only Fun Half of the Time
The Other Half Is Spent
Trying To Remember What The 1st 1/2 Felt Like
And Trying To Return
LEIMERT PARK FOLKS
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
ARTSY
HOMELESS
PLAYER or PIMP
HARD TO TELL
MUSICIANS – Dime a Dozen
WINOS – the same….
STYLISHLY FASHIONABLE “Smoker Ladiez”
VIRGIL – “THE VILLAGE CRIER”
SHABAZZ CATERERS WHO AREN’T MUSLIM
FAKE MUSLIMS
MOORS
NGEs
ONE FIVE PERCENTER (PRT_ME) 😉
MASONS
HOMIES
CASUAL OBSERVERS
BEAN SOUP SCIENTISTS
HYPOCRITES
AGENTS
SODOMITES
PERMANENTLY UNDERGROUND EMCEES
HIP-HOP HEADZ
PREDATORS
PREY
TRY TO STAY AFLOAT
FAMILIAR FACES (Boring)
NEW FACES (White)
U.N.W.E.L.C.O.M.E.!
MONEY-HUNGRY MERCHANTS CANNIBALIZING CULTURE
DEVIL-LOVERS COMMERCIALIZING OFF MY (OUR) HERITAGE
SEARCHING DESPERATELY
FOR A
SILVER LINING
NO HOLE IN MY PENNY YET
JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
BUT MOESHA IS LONG-GONE
THINKING ABOUT MOVING
NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
M.I.A.
JUST A FADED MEMORY
Just a memory….
SEPARATION OR DEATH!
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
The Spiritual Properties of OLIVE OIL
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
As-Salaamu ‘Alaikum Dearly Beloved Sisters & Brothers
Anyone who knows me knows I used to swear by Shea Butter, especially when my son was little. I used to use it for cuts, scrapes, burns and whatnot. It even worked when I put it on my cheek in the event of a toothache! And it’s skin softening properties go without saying.
However, I had a Muslim Brother (r.i.p.) who once told me that his mom used to swear by Olive Oil in the same way I used Shea Butter. I never forgot that little jewel even though I kept using the Shea Butter.
Well, after becoming homeless, the Shea Butter was much less accessible and the Olive Oil started looking pretty appealing. So, I bought some in the Shea Butter’s stead and was and am very pleased with the results.
Not to mention “The Good Samaritan” qualities associated with it. Right? I’ve been carrying it around with me and have had the opportunity to share it with people I’ve come in contact with who needed a little salve. I also seem to recall it being used by Prophet Isa (Jesus) on somebody’s feet or whatnot and also in other places throughout the Bible. So one would have to conclude that Olive Oil is not only good for physical healing but spiritual healing as well.
I bear witness.
After applying it to my skin after showering, and I must add here, that it is not at all greasy, as you might think – not nearly as greasy as Shea Butter. You can apply it to your hands and then pick up a book and not leave a fingerprint!
But back to its spiritual healing properties…. After applying it to my whole body, I went about my business as usual. Shortly thereafter, an event occurred that under regular circumstances would have really discomfited me.
But just as my blood started to heat, I could physically feel the Olive Oil I had applied on my skin begin to go to work, and I immediately began to feel a sense of calmness over my whole body!
It was unbelievable but true, Sisters and Brothers. I felt relaxed and at peace, whereas otherwise I would have felt agitated and annoyed and I knew it was only due to the Spiritual Healing Properties of the Olive Oil I had applied. Al Hamdulillah!
I carry the small bottle in my purse and have decided when (if) I make my body butter again to only use Olive Oil as my oil.
But, I’ll probably just keep on using the pure Olive Oil. I like the perks! 😀
In the Bible (Esther) the women were prepared for marriage by using oils.
As-Salaam-Alaikum!
p.s. I only use the Extra Virgin ^.^
It is also nice to add fresh ROSEMARY to give it a sweet smell,
Or you can always purchase flavored Extra Virgin Olive Oil. I’m using lemon flavored right now and it’s fab!
Sadness In Your Smile….
بِسْــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِالرَّحْمَنِ اارَّحِيم
I See It
And
Know
That
I
Am
The
Cause
😦
Your Eyes Don’t Have That Shine Anymore, Baby
What Happened To The Sparkle In Your Smile? 😦
You Don’t Even Look Happy When You’re Smiling….
You’ve Lost Your Glow, Sweet Honey-Stick –
And I’m The ONLY ONE Who Can Return It –
It Makes Me Sad To See You Look So Sad When You’re Smiling
You Need Me
To Make You Smile (Happy)
In Your Eyes….
I Saw It The Last Time I Saw You. 😀
It Fills My Heart With Joy –
My Knees Get Weak –
My Insides Turn To Melted Butter –
The Belly Butterflies Start To Flutter –
& When Our Gazes Mingle
We Both Get That Tingle….
That Only The Other Can Inspire
You Set My Heart Afire
I’m Back-Flipping On A High-Wire
Our Hearts Race Like Cheetahs
And Love Runs Just As Wild & Free
I Carouse Through The City
Hoping I’ll See THE Smile
That I Haven’t Seen In Quite Awhile
Not Since The Last Time I Saw You 😉
Stevie Wonder Can See
The Sadness In Your Smile
Your Eyes Belie Your Grin
Your Sadness From My Sin
I Know You Too, Sugar-Pie
I’m Sorry
&
Whether You Want To Admit It
Or Not
You Need Me
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