The Mighty Conversion/Reversion Experience

Today I was invited by a good friend of mine to witness and take part in a non-Muslim woman “converting/reverting” (whatever the currently fashionable and acceptable term might be) to Islam.  Despite the scariness of the term, it does not involve any surgery, ritual circumcisions and kissing the sacred chicken’s bottom – although it would [...]

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Transience

 

 

“My soul, you only have one life.  No moment that has passed can be recovered.  And in God’s mind, the number of your breaths has been set down and cannot be increased.  When life is done, no spiritual highways will hold the traffic of your freighted soul.  Therefore what you would do, you must do [...]

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Being “Foreign”, Yet A Very “English” teacher…

So, you’re a teacher?
 
 
I never get tired of the questions about teaching; my favourite ones come from my students. When I first started at my current school over a year ago, students went through mixed emotions about being taught English by someone who appeared “foreign.”
 
Firstly, the immediate denial: “No way are you an English teacher [...]

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