<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>other&#124;matters &#187; BARAKA</title>
	<atom:link href="http://othermatters.org/category/contributors/baraka/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://othermatters.org</link>
	<description>CONTEMPORARY  MUSLIM  REFLECTIONS  ON  THE  BREADTH  OF  LIFE</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:57:42 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='othermatters.org' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>other&#124;matters &#187; BARAKA</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://othermatters.org/osd.xml" title="other&#124;matters" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://othermatters.org/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>The Opening</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/09/02/opening/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/09/02/opening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Al-Fatiha (The Opening) In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate All praise is for God alone, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds, The Merciful, the Compassionate, Master of the Day of Judgement. You alone do we worship, and You alone do we turn to for help. Show us the straight way The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=760&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/09/02/opening/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Baraka</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/26/crouching-tiger-hidden-baraka/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/26/crouching-tiger-hidden-baraka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zhang Ziyi as Jen Yu Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=737&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/26/crouching-tiger-hidden-baraka/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6062/1188/320/CrouchingTiger_4.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Rent-a-Guest</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/12/rent-a-guest/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/12/rent-a-guest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mash&#8217;Allah The BBC reports that in South Asia, you can now pad the number of attending guests on your way to wedding debt, er, bliss. The Best Guests Agency employees can turn up either traditionally dressed or in smart Western clothes, and are briefed on family history and pretend to be friends from the past. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=695&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/12/rent-a-guest/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6062/1188/320/sharand%20henna.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/05/gratitude/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/05/gratitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=670</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Longing for the true Rose If you express gratitude for My blessings, I will increase you in them.&#8221; &#8211; Qur’an 14:7 Umm Zaid and Umm Ali&#8217;s seven-day gratitude challenge and Imam Zaid&#8217;s pre-Ramadan article Gratitude in the Face of Calamity both resonated with me recently. I have an overwhelming amount to be grateful for, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=670&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/08/05/gratitude/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6062/1188/320/Islamica.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Lota Stories</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/15/lota-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/15/lota-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image credit: www.urbanpeacock.com/images/ You know how sometimes you send out a link in an e-mail thinking it may interest your friends, and then receive an unexpected page-long response? That happened recently when I sent out a link to an article in the race/culture journal ColorLines on the &#8220;shame and pride&#8221; of lotas and, by extension, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=601&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/15/lota-stories/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6062/1188/400/lotah1.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>My Darcy</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/01/my-darcy/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/01/my-darcy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice showcases the handsome and wealthy but also proud and aloof Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. As the story goes on, his character surprises and develops in ways that Miss Elizabeth Bennet, prejudiced by first impressions, is quite unprepared for and which eventually lead to Colin Firth stepping out of a lake distractingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=565&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/07/01/my-darcy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Testing Converts</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/24/testing-convert/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/24/testing-convert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t expect anyone to believe straight off the bat that Basil didn’t convert to Islam for me. Granted, God alone knows if he would have ever converted had he not met me. But though I may have opened a then unthought-of door, I didn’t force him through it. Both of us were very clear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=552&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/24/testing-convert/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Belief</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/17/belief/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/17/belief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve known “Axx” since 1991, he was one of the first people I met at college. I had just been introduced to him when he asked if I too, like all the other desi women, was studying for a BM. When I inquired as to what that meant, he explained it was a Bachelor’s degree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=545&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/17/belief/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Veneer</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/10/veneer/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/10/veneer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My family is unfailingly polite. My sisters, during labor, continued saying &#8220;please&#8221; and &#8220;thank you&#8221; in between contractions, much to the consternation of the staff. And I&#8217;m told constantly that I&#8217;m a model patient by the nurses. &#8220;Stable&#8221; is what they like to call me. The easy patient they can assign to the floater nurse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=535&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/10/veneer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Cheveux</title>
		<link>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/03/cheveux/</link>
		<comments>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/03/cheveux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BARAKA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://othermatters.wordpress.com/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A rural Purelander lass When you have an autoimmune disease that severely limits energy and movement, you have to plan each day carefully. If I bathe today will I also be able to stand long enough to cook? Can I manage 74 stairs roundtrip to check the mail? Do I have it in me to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=othermatters.org&amp;blog=46480&amp;post=527&amp;subd=othermatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://othermatters.org/2008/06/03/cheveux/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/283a75d2b4ac84ed561f03153afdbc8c?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=G" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">rickshawdiaries</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6062/1188/320/mustache_man.jpg" medium="image" />
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
