Comments on: Hot Air: An Eid Story [Part 1] https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/13/hot-air-an-eid-story/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hot-air-an-eid-story Discourses in the Intellectual Traditions, Political Situation, and Social Ethics of Muslim Life Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Wael Abdelgawad https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/13/hot-air-an-eid-story/#comment-428769 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:05:31 +0000 https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/09/as-light-as-birdsong-copy/#comment-428769 In reply to abdullah salman.

As I mentioned previously, I do intend to finish All That Is In The Heavens, as well as Death in a Valley Town, and the “The Things He Would Say” series, which only has one chapter left. Basically what happened is that I got married a few years ago. Writing pays me very little. It’s a labor of love and passion. When I was single I was fine with being nearly broke all the time, and devoting myself to writing. But now that I’m married I can’t afford that anymore. I have to care for my family. So I’m not writing as much.

A series like All That Is In The Heavens is a massive project that is very labor intensive. Especially since it’s sci-fi. I have to do a lot of world building, history, mythology, and so on. It’s hard to justify the time investment needed to finish it. But it’s important to me and I do intend to finish it, inshaAllah.

Aside from the short stories I’m currently writing, I will tackle the bigger projects in this order, inshaAllah:

1. The Things He Would Say
2. Death in a Valley Town
3. All That Is In the Heavens

]]> By: abdullah salman https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/13/hot-air-an-eid-story/#comment-428766 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:46:48 +0000 https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/09/as-light-as-birdsong-copy/#comment-428766 what happened to all that is in the heavens. Its been three years

]]> By: Wael Abdelgawad https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/13/hot-air-an-eid-story/#comment-428585 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 21:15:05 +0000 https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/09/as-light-as-birdsong-copy/#comment-428585 In reply to Jalaludeen Al-Fulani.

That’s a great point brother Jaluludeen, that our African American brothers and sisters are picking up the cultural mantle of their ancestors. Thanks so much for pointing that out.

]]> By: Jalaludeen Al-Fulani https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/13/hot-air-an-eid-story/#comment-428584 Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:58:31 +0000 https://muslimmatters.org/2025/04/09/as-light-as-birdsong-copy/#comment-428584 Excellent article brother but would like to add something historical that is often overlooked…

In The Vanguard section of your wonderful essay…you mentioned how our brother dressed more Muslim than Muslims worldwide do. A lot of us descend from Muslim West Africa and so dressing modestly via long shirts/thawbs or wearing a kufi is almost second nature since it’s already in our background.

That’s all I wanted to add as we Muslims have a history going back to Prophet Adam (pbuh) and succeeding Prophets up to our noble Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). So we have a long history indeed. Apart from Western colonization and its brief interruption… Muslims who have reverted to the Natural Way of Islam are really just picking up where there Muslim ancestry left off… which would include attire that identifies one as being a Muslim when worn.

I like your series of articles, brother. Keep up the good work.

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