Please welcome a new Muslim blog to the blogosphere: Embrace the Light.

His second entry, The Train Ride, touches on the subject of inner-city poverty:

For him his life was like that, uncertain, hungry, miserable, desperate, and low. I had only four dollars, it probably wasn’t enough to buy anything so i stared, ashamed i looked at my shoes, $99 Nike Dunks. And then i looked at the man, how much was he worth? How much was a poor man’s life worth in this world? Nothing, i thought.