#Riddles in bengali

[ithseem]

Idina Slander, Babyyyyy

Toa be here tryna live his life and vibe when Idina starts some shit

This bitch kins Ruby from Max and Ruby

Ruby 🤝Idina: Narcissistic, sociopathic bitches who boss around and torment their little bro

As an oldest sibling, I can say that this bitch gives oldest siblings everywhere a bad name

Bitch has the Karen look down pat

Bitch is probably anti-vaxx

Bitch is a flat-earther

I headcanon project onto my kin that Toa is autistic. This bitch is the main reason he's so good at masking

Imagine being so petty that you'd try to fcking kill your brother's paramour

Bitch claims "tHerAPy iZ FoR ThE WeAK" despite needing it electric boogaloo

Bitch probably got a wind-up demon toy for Toa on his third birthday and let it terrorize him

Bitch probably ripped out Toa's hair while combing it. Toa's hair got tangled and bitch just fcking yanked the comb

Bitch would probably get tips on how to parent from Riddle Rosehearts's mom

Bitch is another case of homophobic homosexual

Bitch would grill a child for having a lemonade stand without a permit

Bitch would say "Sorry, I don't speak Indian" to a Bengali

Bitch deserves jail. There. I said it

[iveriee]

the scribe.

— ; IVERIE, VER, OR VERIE.

* genderfluid. any pronouns. pansexual. indian. ( bengali, more specifically)

; a ravenclaw, fanfic writer, unpaid yapper, aspiring author, reptile -lover and artist unapologetically married to heather duke + tom riddle and would need to stop the world just to stop the feelings. ( wink wink. reference.)

— books, snakes, small towns, murder mysteries ( agatha christie ! ) , diaries (a certain someone's diary. cough cough.), old parchment, biting wind, grim fairycore, poetry, overly flowery prose.

( please refrain from talking about EDs + child neglect as they trigger me due to personal events. also if you're disheartened by my content, you can simply hit the block button instead of sending hatemail ! )

[rifat93]

৭টি মজার ধাঁধা | এখানে কে মারা গেছে ? Bengali Riddles Question @Squad-23

[dangal-play]

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Introduction:-

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Comedy That Tickles Your Funny Bone:-

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Conclusion:-

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[parse-c]

𐂃༄༉༅༊༣༢༡ | Burner on Deck

Understanding and feeling in Fredo & Pop Smoke's "Burner on Deck". With pictograms!

The lyrics of the tune elucidate riddles I can't help but applaud.

Burner on deck, in Hakkasan or Nobu

Treating this line as an acronym presents a sapient listener with the choice menfolk face: to pursue the pleasure senses of the flesh, the emotions, or the intellect. Or to balance them.

Burner On Deck In Hakkasan Or Nobu

One may pursue "understanding" or BODH (बोध) [Hindi], maintaining the "body" (বডিঃ) [Bengali] physical, while using the senses, BODH (बोध), to grasp concepts beyond the immediate senses. Spiritual endeavors, including pure intellectual play build up one's metaphysical storehouse or spiritual corpus (body) of knowledge.

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in or steal." Matthew 6:19-21 TLV

In this pursuit of peering into the well of knowledge one must rely on and incorporate his "feelings", or BODHON (বোধন), to guide himself on his journey. How we feel is a built-in failsafe and feedback loop just like any system designed to be self-sufficient and self-improving. (I'd count incorporating peer feedback as self-improvement as well. It speaks to a maturity in knowing that one may not always rely solely on his own understanding).

But a catch is that our feelings can be hindrances to the metaphysical goals we seek. Apprehension, self-doubt, or even the opposite: pride and bull-headedness. But elimination of one's feelings altogether is to dehumanize oneself. Guess that's why they have the eightfold path. The middle way.

This tune's one for the Bodhisattva's out there in pursuit of BODHI, "awakening", "enlightenment".

Fredo and Pop sing int heir a refrain about a young man who finds his voice after turning away from an unsavory lifestyle, and finds success in his new endeavors.

That's the thing about agathokakological behaviors. Sometimes we have to go through rough patches or do the "wrong" thing to get somewhere right. Whether that's drinking a few whiskey neats to get the creative juices flowing or going to lunch with your mother-in-law every other Sunday after church when your wife knows she's going to bring up the fact that you aren't eating the right foods to boost your motility. Sometimes it's deliberate; other times we just find ourselves thrust into these positions where we are tested and we either fail and backslide or we improvise, adapt, and overcome, and find our way back in between the navigational beacons.

𐂃༄༉༅༊༣༢༡

Burner on deck

Composed of Tibetan characters, the pictograph shows an equine figure breathing fire. Their transliteration is EQUIDMAMGOMAMGO321 Though there is no letter 'i' in sight aside from in Equid, were others present, they would spell "amigo" and "imam" several times over. Maybe to say that friends and spiritual guides are essential to our development as people. Networking.

ྷྐྵ࿉ྞ | ꁉ

in Hakkasan or Nobu?

Neither. It's a pop-up Vietnamese restaurant. Just kidding. (That was a play on the letters being present to spell Hanoi). The little characters that look like folks gathered around that eggy looking character are Tibetan Subjoined characters: ྷ - HA ྐྵ - KSSA ྞ - NNA ࿉ - NOR BU

ꁉ | Pop

Meanwhile the character ꁉ is the Yi syllable for "Pop". The Norse Runic equivalent, optically so, is ᚹᛜᚹ. Two Wunjo runes on either side of an Inguz. Wing. Maybe ol' Pop got his wings up there. And when he lowers them to sit down at his desk to write, he probably becomes ᚦᛜᚦ. Still Pop, just different. Two Thurisaz runes (ᚦ), denoting strength, on either side of that same creative energy seed, Inguz (ᛜ). Spells Thing, working from the outside in on either side. "Thing" isn't derogatory. In Russian, it's Vesch (вещь) meaning an entity. And who doesn't become a different creature when they get in their zone? With a little freedom, we could render that Inguz (ᛜ) a stylized "O". That'd make ᚦᛜᚦ spell THOTH. And while I'm sure the original Thoth is alive and well somewhere in his metaphysical form and fortress of knowledge and needs no replacement, I bet there's room for someone to be just as much "like the ibis" as he is.

༣༢༡ | Fredo

The Tibetan numeral characters 321 resemble 329. Strong's Greek Concordance for the numeral 329 is ἀναζωπυρέω: "I stir up the fire, fan the flame of." Fire + redo = Fredo But, since Norbu is supposed to be a precious Tibetan jewel which can release mortals from the cycles of repetition, what if we go with 321 instead of 329. Strongs 321 on the other hand is ἀνάγω: "to lead up", "offer", "produce", "put to sea", "set sail"

🜔♁⛯ | SAL VE AOR DE MUNDI

Ye are the salt of the earth and called to be the light of the world.

To be the light of the world is not to condemn, withdraw or shy away from the world, but to actively pursue the dark places, to willingly enter into places of pain, poverty, injustice, sickness, violence and sin. Good Faith Media

More often than not, it is I who am in need of redemption. But man, what joy I find in witnessing how my own prejudices against secular media and pop music are torn down brick by brick.

You won't find my analysis on Cardi B's "WAP" anytime soon, but I'll keep an ear out.

microstudyon

[zhobanage]

Tech Blogs - Your Gateway to Technological Advancements

Having a tech blog can be a great way to share your knowledge of technology and help others. It can also help you become an expert in your niche.

You can even make money from your blog if you do it well enough. However, there are a few things you should keep in mind before you start a tech blog.

Wired

The American magazine Wired covers technology and its impact on culture worldwide. The magazine first appeared in 1993 and gained notoriety as an expression of the emerging digital revolution. Cofounder Louis Rossetto proclaimed in the first issue that it was "whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon." Wired quickly established itself as a leading voice for technology in both print journalism and design. Its articles and illustrations on topics such as Internet sex, cell phone hacking, military simulations, and Japanese otaku were groundbreaking for their time.

The magazine's editorial stance became more mainstream after the dot-com bust and was edited by Chris Anderson from 2001 to present. The magazine also has a number of spin-offs including Wired UK, Wired Italy, and Wired Germany.

CNET

CNET is a tech website that specializes in product reviews and breaking technology news. It also offers a search engine that has lightning-fast autosuggestions based on natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

The site is a great resource for anyone interested in technology. It features unbiased and brutally honest product reviews, as well as top-notch news coverage. It is also known for breaking the latest tech news as fast as, if not faster than, most major news sites.

However, former staffers have complained that traditional guardrails keeping editorial content independent, like a separation between revenue teams and journalists, were repeatedly breached following the Red Ventures acquisition. This appears to be largely due to Guglielmo’s hands-on approach. Your triumphs await - site web for Tech Blogs .

Gizmodo

Gizmodo (pronounced giz-moh-duh) is a design, technology and science website. It was launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton, and it runs on the Kinja platform. It also includes the subsite io9, which covers science fiction and futurism. Gizmodo is currently owned by private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

Gizmodo’s editorial staff didn’t have any advance notice or input into the error-filled article that was written by a robot and published on its site this week. The article, titled “A Chronological List of Star Wars Movies and TV Shows,” was riddled with a number of factual mistakes.

AllSides’s media bias rating for Gizmodo is Lean Left. This means that the website often publishes stories with a slight Left-leaning slant.

Ryan Schultz

Tech blogs are a great way to stay updated with the latest technological advances. They can offer a wide range of content, from news to tutorials. However, it’s important to understand your audience before writing a technology blog. The best tech blogs keep readers engaged by using their interests to drive topics and make them feel like they’re gaining something from reading the blog.

The Next Web (TNW) is a popular tech blog that covers everything from business technology trends to gadget reviews. The site is constantly updating its homepage feed with breaking news, making it an excellent source for staying up-to-date on the latest tech innovations. It also features a variety of cultural commentary and analysis.

[saartgenesis]

The Title: "Tales of Plaster & Stone"

Medium: Watercolor on Paper

Size: 5.8″ x 8.3″

Description:

"Tales of Plaster & Stone" was painted in order to preserve and also cherish a piece of history that is being overlooked now. These are the walls of the well known Dutch Warehouse in the city of Kochi in Kerala, India. A remnant of history riddled with a rich past of struggles and triumph. The walls tell stories of old, inscribed with Malayalam and Bengali Texts old and new as it was once a storage facility which usually housed items like pepper, spices, and other various things brought from parts of Kerala, until they were shipped off.

The colors and composition of the painting intends to give off a quaint and almost forgotten energy to an otherwise very powerful and active part of history. Painted in watercolor with Ink marker scribblings to highlight the key aspects of the scene.

This painting was inspired by a picture I took during my visit to Fort Kochi, Kochi, India.

[babbletoonsbangla]

অংকের ধাঁধা | Math puzzle | Bangla Dhadha | Riddles in bengali | Puzzle ...

[bongboyblog]

Bengali word of the day: পরিষ্কার (poriṣkār)

English: clean, clear

এই ধাঁধাটির উত্তর খুঁজে পেলেই সব ঘটনা পরিষ্কার বোঝা যাবে।

ei dhā~dhāṭir uttor khu~je pele'i sôb ghôṭonā poriṣkār bojhā zhābe.

If we can find the answers to this riddle, all facts will be clearly understood.

Been listening to some Feluda audiobooks lately xD

[itsana004]

Hi @musiclover2732! Thanks a lot for the tag!

1) Last song you listened to?

- Idk which one is the last one but it has to be something between "Try" by P!nk or "Thumbs" by Sabrina Carpenter, quarantine is making me listen all kinds of songs

2) Favourite book?

- Definitely "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

3) Least favourite subject?

- Hate English Language with my soul and being because of the class that I was put in and the teacher, I am so frekin glad that I will never have to have her again and have to see that woman ever in my life. Don't get me wrong I don't despise English, my Eng Language teacher was so bad that she made me hate it, however I love English Literature, she wasn't my teacher luckily, however I am also more of a scientific and mathematician person but I try my best to be more academic.

4) What languages do you speak and understand?

-English, Italian and Bengali both speak and understand

-French, Spanish, Hindi - understand but cannot speak (the only reason I understand Hindi because of bollywood movies lol)

5) Fictional character crush?

-Kaito Tenjo from Zexal and Keichii from Higurashi

6) Favourite plant/flower/tree?

-Favourite plant is almost all the indoor plants but my cactuses stands out, favourite flower is really difficult to choose but the top best for me I think is the orchids, gladiolus and Dahlia, favourite tree is magnolia

7) Actor/Singer/Dancer or tech crew?

Tech crew since I am bad at all the above lol

8) Dream job?

-My dream job is in a Clinical scientist in biochemistry, I am into that field because it finds treatments for diseases and many things that interests me

9) Puzzles, crosswords, word searches or sudokus?

-Few months ago I would have said sudokus because I don't play them most of the time but when I do I enjoy it, but now I love puzzles in both sense of riddles and jigsaw puzzles, I really need to a jigsaw puzzles of 1000 pieces to help me get through quarantine now

10) How are you feeling today? Are you remembering to take good care of yourself?

-Yeah I'm fine thank you! But for the second question… nope not at all lol, I never do lol, I really need to remind myself to shower but I always forget dammit :'D

Here is my 10 questions

1) Was quarantine good for you? Did quarantine made you do something that you never had time for?

2) What is your spirit animal?

3) Do you know your astrological sign? Does it match with your personality?

4) Favourite Disney villain?

5) Favourite anime?

6) What is the question that people asks you often? (Can't say "how are you?" "how you're feeling and doing?" XD)

7) Do you have any favourite games?

8) Who's your favourite youtuber/channel?

9) What character would you like to cosplay as?

10) What person/character anyone that you see as a role model?

Thank you for tagging me again! And anyone feel free to answer them

[aquareads]

The Serpent’s Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) by Sayantani DasGupta

Synopsis and picture from goodreads: 

MEET KIRANMALA: INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMON SLAYER (Only she doesn't know it yet.) On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in Parsippany, New Jersey... until her parents mysteriously vanish and a drooling rakkhosh demon slams through her kitchen, determined to eat her alive. Turns out there might be some truth to her parents' fantastical stories-like how Kiranmala is a real Indian princess and how she comes from a secret place not of this world. To complicate matters, two crush-worthy princes ring her doorbell, insisting they've come to rescue her. Suddenly, Kiran is swept into another dimension full of magic, winged horses, moving maps, and annoying, talking birds. There she must solve riddles and battle demons all while avoiding the Serpent King of the underworld and the Rakkhoshi Queen in order to find her parents and basically save New Jersey, her entire world, and everything beyond it...

Continuing on my mythology/folk tales inspired fiction trend, I was really interested in sinking my teeth into this book. It is based off of Indian, specifically Bengali tales and what really captivated me about Kiran was how relateable she was. The author touches on the issue of representation, while I am not Indian myself I am able to empathize with Kiran’s emotions. It is difficult growing up with immigrant parents in different culture, trying to balance both. I think that the author does a fantastic job capturing that experience. 

The story itself is an interesting take, in what I would consider an intersection of magic and science. When Kiran journeys to the kingdom beyond, she is able to rely on her science lessons and old stories that her parents told her to help her understand and solve problems. One criticism I do have is that sometimes plot points did feel as if they resolved too quickly. However, I loved the message about family, how love is what is important, not just blood.

[banglagolpo]

৬ টি মজার ধাঁধা । TOP 6 RIDDLES QUESTION | DHADHA | EMON SQUAD

৬ টি মজার ধাঁধা । TOP 6 RIDDLES QUESTION | DHADHA | EMON SQUAD

৬ টি মজার ধাঁধা । TOP 6 RIDDLES QUESTION | DHADHA | EMON SQUAD #ধাঁধা #EMONSQUAD

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গুগলি প্রশ্ন ও উত্তর || ধাঁধা || মগজ ধোলাই || Riddles in bengali || Mind...

[amongxylophonesandglockenspiels]

Bollywood Movies Part CLXXXI: The Mollywood Takeover Part XXIII

5 Sundarikal is a collection of short films about love. In Sethulakshmi the title character (Baby Anikha) is a girl who collects wedding announcement photos and decides to take one with her friend Abhilash (Chetan Jayalal). In Isha Jinu (Nivin Pauly) meets Isha (Isha Sharvani) after breaking into her house and finds her strangely cooperative. In Gauri Gauri (Kavya Madhavan) follows the romantic clues her husband Jonathan (Biju Menon) has left on their first wedding anniversary, only for tragedy to strike. In Kullante Bharya a neighborhood marvels when a tall woman (Reenu Mathews) and her much shorter husband (Jinu Ben) move in. In Aami Ajmaal (Fahadh Faasil) goes on a business venture at night, while his wife (Asmita Sood) gives him riddles to solve.

TW for movie: child abuse (Sethulakshmi), suicide (Gauri). Of these short films, I liked Kullante Bharya and Isha best. Dulquer Salmaan’s narration really gives Kullante Bharya life. Both of the child actors in Sethulakshmi give wonderful performances. Overall a decent collection of short films. Favorite songs are Manthara Katte, Mazhaneer, and Ekantham. None of the songs have subtitles.

Kasi (Dulquer Salmaan) and Suni (Sunny Wayne) go on a road trip from Kerala to Nagaland to find Assi (Surja Bala), the woman Kasi loves. As Suni and Kasi travel, they meet a wide variety of that they help and who help them in turn.

Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi is an amazing road trip movie that also deals with social and political issues. The main driving force of this movie is Kasi and Suni’s friendship and it is performed wonderfully by Dulquer Salmaan and Sunny Wayne. I especially enjoyed how the film got actors from Bengali and Manipuri cinema, such as Surja Bala and Dhritiman Chatterjee who was good as village leader Bimalda. Favorite songs are Thaazhvaaram, Neerpalungukal, and Neelaksham. None of the songs have subtitles.

Karthi (Dulquer Salmaan) and Riya (Malavika Mohanan) elope, fight, and return to their respective homes. Their refusal to reconcile leads their fathers (Jayaprakash and Lalu Alex) to conspire to bring them together.

Pattam Pole is about two stupid kids who can’t get over themselves and communicate. The movie is boring and predictable. I did like Archana as coworker Sherin. The actors were good but they could not make the story more interesting. Favorite songs are Antha Naalil and Mazhaye Thoomazhaye. Neither song has subtitles.

[talihahiman-blog]

Finding Home and Starting a Blog

All my life I have been a curious, questioning seeker of Truth.

I think most people encounter a severe period of Questioning in their lives before they fall back or abandon their quest and resign to stop even thinking about it. But some, like me, remaining searching for a Truth that seems immutable. Finally, Alhamdulillah, I feel like I have found that Truth. And its name is Islam.

This is not a discovery that I happened upon in an instant: there was no thunderbolt from the sky demanding I give myself to it, no massive horde trying to bend me into shape, no men with knives at my throat denouncing me for what I was; no angel hovering beside my pillow, no giant billboards on the highway trying to point me where it thought I should go, no conversion school telling me I was inherently flawed.

This discovery came from a lifetime of asking questions, not accepting vague, mediocre and uninformed answers, the realization that the only way I would find the right answers was to embark on exploring matters of the sacred on my own, and then reading, researching and experiencing first-hand several different paths to the Ultimate. 

Each path taught me profound lessons about myself and my relationship with God; each brought me closer to Him and helped clarify what was really important to me. 

Last year, in particular, after an unexpected end to my marriage, going completely broke, homeless and feeling worthless, I found myself lying on the floor of my greataunt’s bedroom one February evening, still alive after two suicide attempts in one night, with an acceptance that if I was still alive, it was because God willed it.

“You have to show me why You’re not letting me leave,” I demanded of God. “Clearly You’re keeping me here. And I don’t know why. I still don’t even know You like I want to. I have nothing left. I have no will to stay. I��d leave now with no regret if You just let me. But if You won’t let me go, then show me why You want me to stay.” It was a moment of utter surrender.

The answer was not immediate. 

There was a period of three months from that moment where I felt like I was in limbo. No answers, no direction.

In March I decided to move back with my family in Trinidad indefinitely to let the situation and my demand incubate. Slowly, I felt an urging in my heart to come back to NYC and start over, completely alone. It was not at the only option by any means - but it was the craziest possible option. I had nowhere to go, no money, no family here. Yet I was completely homesick. I never understood homesickness was an actual thing until I was in the place that I was born and raised in surrounded by my entire family, and all I could think about was NYC! 

To everyone else - and, admittedly, to even myself - it seemed as if I were jumping into shark-infested waters when I could barely even swim, but somehow I understood that coming back would be the catalyst for God’s answers to my sincere plea that February.

By mid-May, I used the money I saved from working in Trinidad to buy myself a plane ticket back to NYC on June 2. Getting off the plane with nothing but one suitcase and a carry on bag of belongings and marching into the homeless shelter, I steeled myself with faith that if God was bringing me back, He would get me through anything that life could possibly throw my way.

So began the most incredible turnaround of my life.

I was faced with trial after trial, and in oftentimes what appeared to be impossible situations, He always showed up. On time. I learned in a very tangible, undeniable way that a true relationship with God was not simply talking to Him, but an active conversation with Him: you talk, you ask, you explain - then you shut up, you watch and you listen. 

The answer is not always in obvious places.

For most of the year, I also identified as Hindu if anyone asked, and I hated when people asked because it never felt like it correct answer, which I found common to all to all of the religions I involved myself in at some point or the other. While the nature of the missing pieces would change, something was still missing anyway.

As a major world religion, naturally Islam was on my to-do list of religions to learn more about, but l thought that the only thing we might have in common is my belief that Jesus was a prophet and not the Messiah. The end! After all, it was a war religion that suppressed women, right? And they couldn’t listen to music, right? And they could only eat food from halal places, right? And you had to take a Muslim name! Right?! 

And how could I forget: a Muslim group in Trinidad known as the Jamaat-Al-Muslimeen was responsible for an attempted coup d’etat in 1990 that resulted in 24 deaths, severe injuries to the President of the country, and my birth merely three years later meant constantly hearing the story of the “bad Muslim guys” even long before 9/11. Then 9/11. Then ISIS. 

Everywhere I turned the narrative was the same: Islam is oppressive and dangerous. And living in NYC, where the new World Trade Center stands tall reminding us of the tragedy that befell this city and the world before it, it also reminded us constantly of that running narrative. 

How could I ever be one of them? 

Also as a languages enthusiast who loves spending time listening to different things from around the world, I suddenly started to stumble upon several Arabic and English Islamic songs that I really loved and listened to on a regular basis, moved, sometimes to tears, by the beauty of them and pure sense of joy, connection, and devotion contained within them. 

While there were many such songs which captivated me at that time, these two became very special to me:

Listening to these, I couldn’t help but think, “Perhaps we’ve got this Muslim thing all wrong.” 

But I couldn’t seem to get past that point.

It turned out that I started a new job this year, and in doing so found myself a close friend in a Bengali-American Muslimah from a neighboring department. She did not wear hijab nor was fussy about her shirt necklines, but was outspoken about her belief in Allah (SWT) and her excitement about Ramadan, as well as the role that Islam played (and continues to play) in her choices. For the first time, I had a wonderful Muslim woman in my inner circle who was my age, so relatable and so...normal. 

Almost like instinct, I began asking her to tell me more about her beliefs and was fascinated to hear of her stories about the Jinn and why Ramadan is important. Even though I was raised in a country where Muslims were very visible and Ramadan was celebrated visibly, I discovered through conversations with her that even Ramadan was not what I thought it was - and it was certainly more than just getting bags of yummy treats on Eid. (Barfi, kurma and gulab jamun, anyone?)

From the little I had learned through my new friend and my quickly-expanding catalog of saved Islamic songs on YouTube and Spotify, my interest grew quickly about what Islam really said about the big questions. Shortly before Ramadan, another new hire at our organization came in - she was my age, proud feminist, fresh out of breaking up with her neglectful boyfriend, a real move-maker and unapologetically herself. We, too, became instant friends and quickly found ourselves contemplating modern religious thought and female empowerment. She was also an Arab-American Hijabi.

Neither of these new Muslimah friends tried to tell me that I should be like them, but they were both excited to hear of my interest in Islam, and both proud talk to me about their understanding of and experiences in it. I was being pointed in one direction by God now, and it would have been stupid of me to ignore it.

As the days counted down to Ramadan and conversations continued, it felt very natural to decide that for Ramadan this year, I would sincerely undertake to learn about Islam with an open mind. I had technically already started, and I was surrounded by equally open-minded people who would support me along the way - it finally was the right time. I told my friends of my intent to learn for Ramadan but did not tell them that I would also fast.

I started off Ramadan reading the Quran on my phone telling myself I’d just get the gist of it, but after a week it was inadequate - there was so much I wanted to reread and explore that I needed the real thing in my hands. I desperately wanted to let my mind dance between its pages and get lost in it, find gems and other surprises and come back out with a new understanding. After scouring bookstores for the right first* Quran, I decided on a translation by Tarif Khalidi.

 *I already suspected at that point that this one would only be an introduction and that I would desire to read more ‘advanced’ translations and even the original text in Arabic after having a good initial understanding it in English, and this translation struck me as a beautiful cross between capturing not just the meaning but also the poetic and linguistic beauty of the original Arabic.

Ten days into Ramadan, on the second day with my new Quran, one thing was as clear as day: everything that was portrayed to me about Islam was wrong. All of it. The media and sociopolitical landscape is riddled with severe misconceptions and abuse of Islam, and I was completely unprepared for how tainted and ignorant the media perception is when I began to see what it is really is. Seeing past the misinformation and blatant lies being told, I knew that sharing the actual beliefs of Islam with others would become a very important task for me, even if I did not embrace it as my own.

There was also another issue I was praying about in the past few weeks and keeping myself open to answers for, and on the following day the answer came to me in the form of a particular episode of a podcast. I was just scrolling through and clicking on random things to listen to at work instead of my regular playlists to get me through the day, and although I’d been listening to such podcasts of several days at that point, that one was the one that confirmed to me that God was truly listening. Call it convenient confirmation bias if you will - that doesn’t change the fact that it was a direct answer. 

I found myself suspended in time, awestruck and understanding in a different way from any path I had ventured into before that this was it. 

It was what I’ve been on the hunt for my entire life. Everything I’ve done, felt, questioned, experienced, hoped for, run from, aspired toward and battled with myself about converged into that moment. I didn’t know precisely what I was looking for...until I found it.

Allah (SWT) spoke. My heart understood. And without even knowing it then, I accepted it.

I finally found my spiritual home. I am a Muslim. 

Up until now, my travels led me to places that were interesting and useful, but still hollow and incomplete. For the first time, I feel whole.

And so here I am on the 14th day of Ramadan, feeling like simultaneously everything is different yet the same. I have not officially taken Shahada with witnesses, but I know that the real moment when I became Muslim has already happened. It was on that eleventh day on work when time stood still, and everything became clear. 

There are still two more weeks left in Ramadan, and I’m not sure yet if I’d like to take Shahada on Eid, as I will be spending it with my Beng-Am Muslimah friend from work and her family again, and I think that would be a wonderful opportunity to do so. Otherwise, I may choose to wait some more and continue to study a while and find a community that I can be a part of it, not just my bubble of work acquaintances. But if I hold off to ‘study more,’ I feel like I will end up never taking it because I may never feel ‘ready’ - and Islam is a way of life and an ongoing act of submission to Allah (SWT), so I understand that officially converting is only the beginning. I really appreciate how often I see and hear the advice that one does not have to know everything to take Shahada - one simply has to be prepared to know, with the guidance of God.

Regardless of when I decide to take Shahada, I feel quite certain that my wandering soul is home at last, and I feel immediately called to share the things I am learning, contemplating and experiencing as a new Muslimah in NYC. Inshallah, it is my hope that someone out there will be able to either relate or at least learn something new, wonderful and unexpected about Islam along the way!

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