Are we ever really alone? Whether you're in the desert like Waheed, or your own back yard, you hear sounds. You see light and shapes. You sense the air around you and that which you breathe. And inside, some hear their God or some hear themselves. That voice can be kind and uplifting, or else condemning and fearful. So I ask again, are we ever really alone?

You can close your eyes and shut out the sights. You can plug your ears and play music, or just cancel out the sound. You can still the voices in your mind, or just summon them to be a comfort not a distraction. But you still need air to breathe, and you still have feelings that consume you in the silence you generate. Face it, though it may feel it, you are never truly alone if you have belief in a Greater Spirit. Whoever or Whatever that may be, for it is in Nature, it's the wind, the sky and particles that make us. It is birds and plants, the thoughts we have and the actions we take. We aren't alone, unless we choose to be. We are connected, all of us both person and things, we share the Divine spark of life.

Waheed has left his camels behind and walked to a beautiful spot in the desert that he feels is right. He's not sure why, sometimes those in tune with themselves just know these things. Today he's wearing blue. It reminds him of the sky and his beloved Allah, his own Great Spirit. It reminds him of cool water and vast oceans, so lacking near the desert he lives in. But he saw it once, a huge expanse of water they called the Dead Sea. He smiles when he sees the colour blue, for that was an amazing sight that fuels his mind and brings his smiles. That day was a good day and he relives it often. Blue is his favourite colour.

Waheed believes in giving alms, and in prayer and pilgrimage. He's given already and is on his way to a Holy place near the old city that now lays in ruins. His form of prayers can be done in the open, he doesn't feel he needs to be in a Temple. He knows his...