The pride of a muslim is in the prayer. Indifferent to the strange atmosphere of an unknown territory, inconsiderate of the staring eyes, a muslim gets indulged in the prayer like there is no tomorrow.
Nice; it's almost like how I feel pride at tellin ppl I'm Paki and get excited abt tellin ppl how grt our culture and ppl r. Although, apart frm th undeniable love fr identity markers like my country, islam etc. it's also true tht I can be critical abt both although there r many gud things which we shd nevr frgt!
We are missing Umar as well here in US.As my roommate,as my brother,as my friend who helped me in many situations from buying groceries to arranging stuff for my Aatikaaf in Mosque.I am missing him a lot.
Umar.. we will miss u...dont forget to blog when u get back home...if Chechnya was not destroyed i would be probably living there instead of here..... Have a good trip...