I’ve gone insane with creativity lately. Images, movies and music. Heck, I’ve even got merchandise. Well, anyway, now you can check out the fly new single from DJ Iron Rilla (a.k.a, ME!!): Procession, the single from his new album, 2nd Time ‘Round. Yeeeeaaaah, boyeee!!

So what happens to a ship that has either a crew of captains or everyone’s rowing? Arguing over who’s in charge or no one’s in charge at all! I was listening to a recent audio clip from the Zaytuna Institute in which Hamza Yusuf pointed out that not everyone needs to be or even can be a scholar.

And that’s okay. What’s important is following the religious authority (there is one? Ooops, my bad. See the next article for that one). We have to get out of this notion that we’re all supposed to go off and study and become scholars of the religion. We need carpenters, lawyers, plumbers, doctors, cab drivers and entertainers just like any other society. We all can’t steer the ship nor can we all row blindly in the dark. And that’s just another bulletin from your friendly neighborhood Muslim-Man.

Vignette (vn-yt): To describe in a brief way. I often look at life this way; a short collection of images, sounds, smells, all sorts of stimuli bound and wrapped up in a certain place and time. I’d like to produce a body of work sometime about this phenomenon. Well, today was one such time.

As of late, I have give over much thought to the Muslim, non-Muslim relationship. Both on a personal and a social level. On the personal level, I have many friends, many close friends who are non-Muslim. One could say that I have not gone through life picking and choosing my friends solely based on their religious standpoint. Socially, we must interact, work and live with one another regardless of religious affiliation. Today was a nice vignette of the nature of the Muslim, non-Muslim relationship. Perhaps a glimpse of what could happen. How it could be. (more…)