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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Letter to the Unborn: Black and White

Letter dated 21 February 2007



Dear Musa or Maryam,
I’m sorry I don’t talk to you that much. I never thought I’d feel awkward or shy to talk to you now that you’re here. You’re such a…unbelievably new, clean, pristine person. While I am old, dirty, and jaded. I feel very shy to speak to you because you’re so clean and new. I feel very…undeserving. I’m sure you can hear me talk to so many people but yourself, please don’t be hurt. It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you; I don’t know what to say; I’m so old and dirty, I’ve been in this world too long. Where as you, you are yet to be born. Now do I understand why people write about unborn babies; the old against the new; the clean against the jaded. I feel too dirty, too undeserving to talk to you. please don’t feel hurt, Musa or Maryam. I love you anyway, and I will do my best to assure that you get the tarbiyyah that you need in this world. I’m so sorry, baby, your mother is old and jaded; the world has left me old and jaded, but I love you anyway, Musa or Maryam, please forgive me.

Ummuka.

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