Houses of Serenity

…And so she retreated to a distant place where the rich and the poor were aligned, where the colours of the world painted the faces of worshippers, where different tongues were heard by the walls, and where the ground became a shoulder for the humbled head to cry on. The Houses of Allah; houses of peace and serenity. Raise not your voice but raise your recitation and remembrance. Speak not of the world, for it has been built for you to remember your Hereafter…