Letter to Julia 20121127

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hi Julia, my beautiful and precious love.  It's almost the end of the year, huh?  How time flies, and it's coming to the 4th year since I first proposed to you.  I don't remember exactly when, you probably know better than me exactly when, I think it was sometime after February 2009.  Well, I'm still game, because I mean it, Julia.  I love you, and I want to marry you.  I have chosen you for my wife, and I am committed to our marriage.

And I have been waiting all these years for Allah to grant me the means to marry you.  I want to give you a good married life, and not my poverty, that is why I wait.  I believe Allah will bring us together InsyaAllah, so please pray with me.

I'm not a priest Julia, I'm just an ordinary person trying to be faithful, to God and to you.  There is no priesthood in Islam: the imams you see are generally elected officials.  God didn't create the priesthood and monasticism: humans did.  But there are certainly some sincere servants of God among the many priests.