hermeneutic leap of mercy

been having great reads this past week.

"... if one accepts the premise that the ethos of the Qur'an and Sunna compels a hermeneutic leap of mercy, then the end result is a positive ambiguity -- the kind of ambiguity that leaves believers with a deep sense of humility and hope for humanity."

~ Islam And The Fate Of Others, by Mohammad Hassan Khalil

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 After repeated plays of this on youtube over the week, I figured I should finally post it here:

I really love this; it's so lovely; and the original song is just awesome to begin with.

The other day, I was doing action picture handouts with this kid for language therapy, and I told him to colour the pictures as a break (typically because child, let me document for a moment) -- I then saw after a while, that he had coloured the hair of one of the boys in the picture blue. So I said as a matter of conversation, "Oh, his hair is blue! That's interesting..." He then said matter-of-factly, "Like BTS."

It took me a few seconds: "Wait, what -- BTS??? HAHA. His hair is like BTS!" My kid cracked a smile because clearly I was excited to find a fellow fan in my little client. But then again, which child isn't a fan of BTS these days. I then proceeded to ask, "So who has blue hair? Was it Jungkook, or V... or...." (I believe it was both of them, at different time points. I can't be certain.) But my little boy's vocabulary limit had been reached, haha.

oh cute moment that made me fangirl amidst work.

Speaking of work, and not just professional work,

there's been a nice flow of observable, tangible progress;

little dominoes that build on each other and make clacking sounds in (my) real life;

and for persons like me who typically drift along amorphously in soups of ideas,

it feels almost unbelievable that I'm not sinking. I'm afloat; I'm swimming someplace.

It's not just soup here; we're making something.

I believe, and I hope, that this is what secular spiritualists refer to as manifestation.

As a Muslim, in addition I say, Alhamdulillah and Insya Allah.

May every day be beautiful and bring me to beautiful things.