Aliens

I figured it was time for a little silliness after all the seriousness around this place, so heres a funny little comic I stumbled upon (literally) recently:

Gratitude

"It is related that one time she saw someone who had a bandage bound about his head. She said, "Why is this bandage bound (round your head)? He said, "My head is paining me". Rabi‘ah asked him, "how old he was"? "Thirty years old he replied. She asked him "Were you in pain and trouble for the greater part of your life"? ‘No’ he answered. Then she said, "for thirty years (God) has kept your body fit and you have never bound upon it the bandage of gratitude, but for one night of pain in your head you bind it with the bandage of complaint".

-Rabi'a, avid Sufi Muslim

Samir

"Yet even as I spoke, I was flooded with a scary mixed feeling of both remorse and fear, and I prayed to God that Samir would beg me to changed my mind so that I would not lose face. And, lo and behold, he did. 'But Fatima,' Samir said, 'God is the only one who creates beauty. It is not by applying henna, ghassoul - that vulgar clay - or any of those other dirty concoctions, that you'll transform yourself into the moon."

One of my favorite quotes from a book I've been reading recently:

Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
Said by Samir, a 9 year old boy living in a Muslim Harem in Fez, Morocco