A sprinkle of sugar

“Africa fed the world, but the world eats without Africa”

“When I need God most, He comes to me the fastest and closest. When I need the creation most, they run from me the fastest and farthest.”

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

“Sometimes you have to unfollow people in real life.”

This looks like it’s in Makkah. Al-Baik is probably the most famous, Saudi-owned fast food chain in Madinah, Makkah, and Jeddah (the Heja region). You should see the long lines outside of it after the maghrib and isha prayers! I miss fried chicken from there, and also their fried shrimp sandwiches..