The history

Why do I waste my and your time writing nonsense?

To put it succinctly, I really don’t know.

It all started for me on al-maghrib forums some years back. In a since deleted thread (It was called “I’m not insane”) I wrote about some of the experiences that I’ve had and I kind of found it fun, despite being excruciatingly painful to extract at times.

I forgot about “trying” to write entertaining stuff for about a year or so until I was approached about writing for the Islamic Network site in a section to be known as “Hāts Ōn Vōwēls.”

I was relatively happy with some of the things I managed to put up on there; like, for example, Salahophobia, Mistaken Identity and Hands. It was supposed to be a weekly article but that eventually got too difficult for me to keep up with. In trying to write a “long” piece each week I invariably neglected many other things that I was supposed to be doing. Emails of apology to the site for late submission became a frequent practice.

Then when Abu ‘Eesa made posting comments on his blog restricted to blogger members only I decided to open an account. I also got bored enough to make a couple of posts on the blog I’d made whilst opening the account. I didn’t really tell anyone about the site though, I really only passed a couple of hours there and left it at that.

When Sas created Puglu, Islamic Network’s first blogging service, I figured I could export what I’d started on Blogger over to Puglu and thereafter make a concerted effort at blogging.

I stuck with the name (Smāll) Hāts Ōn Vōwēls that I’d used on Blogger in order to distinguish it from the longer writings I was still doing for Islamic Network [which I subsequently referred to as (Bīg) Hāts Ōn Vōwēls].

As time went by I started to feel that writing long stuff so frequently was a bit ambitious for me and so I stopped (Bīg) Hāts and concentrated on (Smāll) Hāts.

When Sas started the second blogging service for Islamic Network, Muslim Pad, I briefly exported my blog onto there. But I couldn’t work out how to do some of the techy stuff that I wanted for it and so I deleted it a month or so later.

I’ve often thought about exporting my Puglu blog onto WordPress but it just seems like a lot of work and I’ve never really gotten around to it.

Anyway, today I created this site, Ḍoṭṣ Unḍer Conṣonanṭṣ, so we’ll see what happens.

Although, most likely nothing.

Abū Ilyās

Epilogue:

Since I wrote this the Puglu domain name passed away. It happened suddenly and without warning over night. However, its passing was a quiet one and I don’t believe it suffered.

In a bid to revive (Smāll) Hāts Ōn Vōwēls it was rushed over to MuslimPad where it now lives happily (although “ever after” remains to be seen).