Reflections of Van Attack: Terror on Yonge St

The call came in like broken tasbeehs

One after the other 9 1 1 rang

White van crushing pedestrians

The world waited to hear Muslim terrorist on rampage

I stuck my hopes on the emptiness of media prejudice

Things turned out not the way most hoped

The carnage that filled Yonge and Finch

Fam I was just there with Hasan Minhaj the other night!

Is terror of a white van not terrorism?

I reverted to reflect on InCel

How could  Zulaikha lived through Yusuf's rejection?

Didn't she put him in jail and had the girls cutting?

But the racist Jahillya needs a new rant

A terrorist in white van

Is a terrorist no matter the whiteness

Isn't this stupid stuck on stupidness?

But wait

That heroic act of the officer

That Interfaith vigil like Spring flower

That fundraiser gone viral - All destroy this terrorist's power.

#HumboldtStrong

Sorry to hear of this tragedy
Youths and teens loss so crazily
With dreams and laughter they shot their puck
Hockey moms wail while carnage fill our sanity

What a beautiful thing it could be
Loss of lives awakens generosity
People from hockey loves and disbelievers together
On the platform of giving charity

So is the course of life
If you look at the glass half empty
You lose a child and family
But half full gives you  hockey players from faraway Cities!

Isra and Meraj- Ascension of Muhammad teaches us to rise up to causes!

Holy is He Who carried His servant by night from the Holy Mosque (in Makka) to the farther Mosque (in Jerusalem) - whose surroundings We have blessed - that We might show him some of Our signs 1. Indeed He alone is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (Quran 17:1)

The ascension is what inspires me to rise to the call of duty every day. Why is that so? The fact that the Prophet Muhammad, on whom be peace, was beginning to feel the weight of the mission in Mecca and needed some respite or inspiration around the ninth year after Prophethood is the raison d'etre of Isra and Meraj. What did Allah provide for him to continue fueling his drive? It was this miraculous journey into the heavens visiting his comrades like Prophet Musa and Ibrahim who had very similar challenges from a disbelieving people. He was so inspired that he returned within the night rejuvenated and ready to continue spreading the word of God among the Quresh despite their brutal racism against him and His Companions.

I think today when we are called to serve humanity and share the love of Islam through our humanitarian deed as called Zakat and Fitra and Qurbani and Sadqa we have to rise to the occasion and this will be our Meraj and Isra. Ascension to the heavens can be done just here without the miraculous Buraq and travel to Jerusalem in the night by sacrificing a bit of our worldly possessions so that we let a human live, let a child breathe, let a mother eat and let humanity survive in dignity once more. Malala, our shero, just thought us that and we are lucky to have her in Canada on Meraj and Isra fighting for girls education worldwide!