and then our exile

assalamu'alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
lesson of today: eating lettuce with a spoon with the lights out in a moving car doesn't exactly work.

we left for taraweeh. it was wonderful. the first eight rak'ahs weren't good--i could not concentrate, and when i could, wasn't understanding much. but the shafi' & witr was great. tabarakAllahu ahsanul khaliqeen.
i met 'imad [sp?] again today. a wonderful person... quiet, ~28 or so, a beautiful smile & thick beard... man. a really, really good brother. farooq: remind me to introduce you two, if you haven't already met.

the person who gave the bayan today was a visiting shaikh from ________... a man with Nur on his face.
!!!tabarakAllahu ahsanul khaliqeen!!!

i can't really remember what i was going to say, or what i should be doing right now, & the screen is beginning to swim in front of me eyes, so i think i'll go talk to my pillow. g'night.