A Birthday gift

It has been ages since I last posted.... but reading my Birthday gift spurred me to make an entry today...see, bestie sent me 2 books she sent them to me ages ago but have only managed to read it today.. in between my feverish sleep and lying down without lilD jumping all over me.. (I locked myself in the other room..he thought I went to work ..had to do it for rest at least for a few hours).

See, LilD was down with bad tonsillitis for about a week.. poor baby but poor mommy too because poorly baby means no rest for mommy.. had slept on average 3 hours per night on top of work load and fasting and hormonal issues etc etc.. it is only natural I would "inherit" the tonsillitis from him.. I so know how he feels now.. it hurts badly to swallow and have been in and out of fever for the past 2 days so I took a day off sick.

I digress.. the book I read today was the Kite Runner ,authored by Khaled Hosseini, an American-Afghan writer. For a debut novel and extremely powerful one I think. I am not going to do a review after all the book came out quite some time ago and have been adapted to a movie .. but I do want to express how I felt after reading the book. First reaction was..sadness..and loss.. despair..I cant really explain it.. this book to me is the epitome of friendship, trust, loyalty, betrayal, bigotry, racism , innocence lost and atonement, hope and miracle..it left me feeling outraged ,angry but helplessly entertained I couldnt put the book down. To me it certainly did put a face to what we hear daily on the news perhaps that is what people need to do to be heard.. humanizing the problems certainly ensure people identify and understand better if not all of it.

I am outraged that such monstrosity are condoned and absolutely flabbergasted on how people can "think" they are the absolute law based on their interpretation of the book of god. I am even more outraged that people chose to look elsewhere when this is happening right from under their noses. The book is fiction but it is not something we have not heard being done in parts of the world that is being oppressed. The lives that are affected ,the children who had to grow up and are being subjected to monstrous things ,appalling things.

In this month of Ramadhan.. I pray to Allah for the betterment of all and the safety and well being of all children in the world. I pray that there is peace and everyone can enjoy going about their lives in an orderly and safe manner.

To bestie.. thank you so much for giving me this book .. I was so emotionally drained that I was pondering about it through sungkai until now... I finished the book in 1 day no mean feat between sleeping fever off and entertaining lil D ..but i couldnt put the book down..May Allah bless you.

To the Hassan's , Sohrab's and Amir's of the world over.. may Allah protect you and keep you safe.

To Lil D may you grow up in peace and harmony and not have to go through the monstrosity that mankind can be capable of and forever and after be protected by Allah SWT.