and then our exile

anyhow, we're in Rutherford and just about to head to the MCE. my point: i bid thee all adieu, and return in a week or two, saving unforeseen troubles. my past few days have been spent with "lasts"--last skiing, last dried mango (well, yes), last visitate with some people, last this and last that. And now i have spent more time doing lasts than working, and the crunch is on: a week wherein to finish three math units a bio and phys unit each three essays and an english unit, after which are the mighty Examinatory Traumas. Anyhow, i wish upon all of you time filled with blessings beyond belief, beg that you remember me in your adu'aa, and sign out with a flourish-y curlique. Wasalam.
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But oh, also a portion of a hadith Qudsi i have read before but in which only now am realizing further beauty, as i start to wonder at the more anagogical implications: "your Lord delights at a shepherd who, on the peak of a mountain crag, gives the call to prayer and [then] offers salah...".