“There was a house made out of sticks, there was a city, made out of bricks, I was amazed at what I saw, all I could say was Subhanallah!”

"Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah and Insha Allah"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)

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