Nadia Q. Ahmad

Grateful to be rereading @kazimalipoet’s “Fasting For Ramadan: Notes From a Spiritual Practice” again this year; I’ve been reading it every Ramzan since 2012, so this is the 12th year. Wow. It’s amazing to find moments that feel familiar and also slightly different, sometimes even noticing things I somehow hadn’t before. Wishing everyone a beautiful month. 🌙🕋📿
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Text on this page is from the preface. It reads, “If the first (and written later) portion of this book is read as the mind's reaching out, with the intention of external communication, then the second (and written earlier) portion could be understood as grounded in the body and the body's experience, which was internal, a practice of reflection.

“Of course, always there is traffic between reflection and expression, as between the mind and the body, between god and human, between past and present, between the external system of the world and the internal system of the so-called self.

“Why two books belong between the same…”