A belated happy new year to all.
The dreaded first day back to work has not been that bad, even with the boss still on holiday which means I’ve got to cover for him so I gots crazy amount of work to do, alhamdulillah it’s preparation for things to come. This year is going to be hella busy for me, with starting my professional qualification and continuing Arabic studies, I won’t have as much time to spend on the blogs. May Allah grant us barakah in our time, amin.
It’s been just over 6 months since I started this blog, some thoughts on blogging so far…
Blogland
It’s a big bloggy world but also a very small world. Yes there are a zillion blogs out there but you always seem to bump into the same faces, even when randomly blog surfing. Like brother Darvish, dude is everywhere! I have a theory… I thinks he is one of those mystics that wot can be in several places at the same time, the ‘Abdal or People of the Step as they are known :o)
Bloggers
Most blogs I’ve come across I have found, surprisingly, the bloggers and people commenting to be nice people, intelligent, tolerant and sincere. I was surprised because from past experience on various forums I got the picture most people like to vent their anger and hatred on the net, with the safety of anonymity and the ease in expressing whatever we want, there are extremely contemptuous comments being made on discussion forums (eg The Guardian Comment is Free section)
This is not the case with most bloggers, most of us don’t like to be hosts for ugly argumentation. Call it fitra or whatever, but most people are sick of all the hatred that floods the net and there is a rising trend for discussion with manners, hurrah!
Writing
A self discovery I made since blogging is how bad I write, I knew I wasn’t no Shakespeare but I didn’t think I was this bad! Another thing is I sound like a different person in my writing, like when you hear your voice recorded, do I really sound like that?! I’ve not written like this in years, need to get re-accustomed to expressing my thoughts coherently and with a bit of eloquence, insha Allah! This was one of the reasons I started the Poetry blog, at least in Poetry you can pretend to be eloquent :o)
Intentions for Blogging
I keep coming back to this, I’ve read many seasoned bloggers who say they regret a lot of what they wrote. Speaking on subjects they are not qualified to, writing egotistically like their opinion deserves special attention. Shukran to all those brothers and sisters who warned of this, I have loads of stuff thats sitting in draft, or was deleted. Because they were too long and badly written and also a lot of it I had to admit was egotistical writing, my unqualified opinion on matters (I wrote long pieces on the row over race and intelligence sparked by Dr Watson and a review of the film American Gangster). The world does not need to hear everything that goes on inside my head, I have a patient wife who listens to my mad theories.
My intention when starting this was to mostly pass on khayr, any sort of goodness I come across if I could share it somehow through this blog I would. Something that will benefit me and others for eternity, a salawat, something that increases iman, taqwa of Allah, love for Rasul Allah (sal Allahu ‘alayhi wasallam).
A specific du’a I made was for Allah to make this blog a means for my happiness on Yawmal Qiyamah. That someone finds something here that guides them, that makes them from the awliya and then on That Day that person remembers this sinner.
