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Honoring the dead and the living

Posted September 11th, 2006 by Laury Silvers
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I'm not sure how I am supposed to mark today. All I have learned from history, let alone 9/11, is that the taste for blood revenge is never satisfied. Maybe today and every other day should be marked by continuing simple straightforward activism. We inwardly call our own souls to task for our shortcomings and outwardly correct the shortcomings in our Muslim and non-Muslim communities. To honor the dead and the living it takes all hands working from all directions on all matters that stir us.  So we carry on.


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So we carry on. Well said,

On September 11th, 2006 Irving (not verified) says:

So we carry on. Well said, dear Sister. We carry on in all the ways being human allows us. In prayer, in play, at school, and in remembrance if we live in New York or Washington DC, or near a field in Pennsylvania.


My calendar say this is Pray for the Nation Day, which I did not know. But I pray for every nation today, and every soul that died five years ago, and in the time between, by war and hunger, and disease.


From dust we come and to dust we return. I pray for the in-between time, the living time, that we may have enough time to grow, and love, and raise children, if God wills, and to find some ease in our alloted years to make peace with ourselves, to heal.


Ya Haqq!

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