Reporting from the Astrodome...

Bassim's a friend of a dear brother I know. He's also participating in relief work at the Astrodome, and gives us eyewitness accounts of survivors.

Alhamdulillah, the human spirit is often tenacious.

If my memory serves me right, an old post of UmmZaid's mentions how Sh Hamza Yusuf once commented on the nature of photography in journalism today. He likened most contemporary photojournalists who take unscrupulous pictures of murder and other fitan, to Vultures.

Bassim's last post ends, thus:

Now I understood the reasoning behind the “no pictures” rule. It was to preserve these people’s human dignity.

Welcome aboard, Bassim. Keep writing, and may Allah grant you a dignified maqam in this life and the next.

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