All We Have Left

by Wendy Mills

“Listening to what ignorant people say is like listening to a dog fart,”

Most of all, I miss her love, which is big enough to embrace me and all my mistakes.

Eventually my father intervened, telling me gently that faith was a road map to happiness, God willing, not a roadblock to fun, and asked me to go to my room to calm down.

That’s what Islam means, you know, submission, surrendering to God.”

“The scarf basically means the same thing as it would on a nun. It represents purity and faith.”

“My father says that ‘tears are prayers too. They travel to Allah when we can’t speak.’”

“The lotus lives in the deep mud, but eventually it grows to meet the sun and blooms into a beautiful flower. It is a message of hope, that the potential we hold deep inside us will triumph.”