The Islamic community

Usage examples of umma.

Derkhan made her way across the room and hovered nervously by a bursting sofa until Umma Balsum indicated that she should sit.

Appearances and surroundings notwithstanding, Umma Balsum was no less a thaumaturgic expert than a senior Remaker or chimerist.

The current flowed around and around the coiled wire, visibly jolting Umma Balsum, setting her head vibrating very slightly for a few seconds.

And then Benjamin Flex broke away and stepped back, and with some mental reflex invisible to the distraught Derkhan, he told Umma Balsum that it was time for them to disengage.

The battery continued winding the little handle until Umma Balsum righted herself and walked closer, laid a peremptory hand on it.

Derkhan did not know if Umma Balsum could recall what she heard and said when she was harmonized.

Benjamin Flex broke away and stepped back, and with some mental reflex invisible to the distraught Derkhan, he told Umma Balsum that it was time for them to disengage.

When she was helping in the kitchen, Umma would sometimes smack her with her spoon if she got in the way, but no one else ever raised a hand to her.

Some nights Umma spiced the fish with sea salt and cracked peppercorns, or cooked the eels with chopped garlic.

Some days she still helped Umma cook, chopping big white mushrooms and boning fish.

Bad enough that the National Security Agency was dithering umma, umma, umma about the whereabouts of twenty million dollars.

So it was true as this umma had said in the beginning: the thing would not come in the lifetime of any man now living, nor in the lifetime of their grandchildren eight times removed, but it would come.

Basheer Alawamleh and Saraji Umma Zaid gave advice on Muslim practices, suitable hadith, and the kalima shahada.

There has never been a Muslim umma, or community, except for 23 years during the time of Mohammed.

The same forces Sadeq has been sent to confront, as representative of the umma in orbit around Jupiter.