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The Dua of Musa (AS):

رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ

Rabbi inni lima anzalta ilayya min khairin faqir

‘My Lord, indeed I am, for whatever good You would send down to me, in need.’ (Surah Al-Qasas, 24)

The Dua of Yunus (AS):

لَّا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا أَنتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّي كُنتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِين

La ilaha illa anta subhanaka inni kuntu minaz-zalimin

‘There is no god worthy of worship except You. Glory be to You! I have certainly done wrong.’ (Surah Al-Anbiya, 87)

The Dua of Nuh (AS):

رَبِّ أَنِّي مَغْلُوبٌ فَانْتَصِرْ

Rabbi inni maghlubun fan-tass-ssir

‘I am helpless, so help me!’ (Surah Al-Qamar, 10)

The Dua of Ayub (AS):

أَنِّي مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ وَأَنْتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ

Innee massaniyad durru wa Anta arhamur raahimeen

‘Indeed, I have been touched with adversity, and You are the Most Merciful of the merciful.’ (Surah Al-Anbiya, 83)

The Dua of Muhammad (SAW):

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ الْهَمِّ والْحُـزْنِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالْكَسَلِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَالْجُبْنِ وَضَلَعِ الدَّيْنِ وَغَلَبَةِ الرِّجَالِ

Allaahumma ‘innee ‘a’oothu bika minal-hammi walhazani, wal’ajzi walkasali, walbukhli waljubni, wa dhala’id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijaal.

‘O Allah, I take refuge in You from anxiety and sorrow, weakness and laziness, miserliness and cowardice, the burden of debts and from being overpowered by men.’ (Sunan an-Nasa’I 5449)

https://bakingmischief.com/easy-overnight-cinnamon-rolls-two/

Easy Small-batch Cinnamon Rolls - These small-batch cinnamon rolls for two make a rich and indulgent breakfast with outrageously amazing cream cheese frosting. Make the rolls the night before, throw them in the oven in the morning, and enjoy your breakfast in bed. No fuss, stress, or mixer needed!

“You are worth finding. Worth knowing. Worth loving. You and all your one million layers. Always hold that close.”

— Danielle Doby

“Promise me not to hide yourself when you’re in pain, it’s unfair that we laughed together but you cried alone”

— Unknown

"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."

-Lisa Kleypas

Free Notion Template | Cleaning Schedule

I’ve been experimenting with Notion recently and made myself a household tracker! I keep forgetting when I’ve changed hand-towels in the kitchen and silly things like that :S I shared a post on Reddit and got lovely feedback so wanted to share what I’d made!

Key features include:

40 pre-existing tasks

toggle options for large households with multiple rooms / people

icons to suit both light & dark mode

overview page for at a glance (household tracker version)

Download free here!

Thank you for checking this out! If you have any questions and issues, please let me know.

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just fyi, man kann sich online für 10€/jahr einen bibliotheksausweis beim voebb (bibliothek berlin) ausstellen lassen (egal wo in deutschland man lebt!) und das online-angebot nutzen.

some highlights:

libby (hörbücher, bücher, zeitschriften / sehr aktuell + auch viele englischsprachige titel)

ava streaming services (arthouse filme / lots of queer gems!)

filmfriend (noch mehr filme & serien!)

vollzugriff auf duden, brockhaus, munzinger, etc.

uvm

für meine stadtbib sind digitale Inhalte immer noch #neuland, vielleicht geht es ja noch jemandem so

the purest form of love, i think, is having someone who wants to learn about you, from you, and with you.

My 13 year old cousin came back from a date with her boyfriend and said, "I can't wait to grow up and spend sunday afternoons with him." At first, I wanted to laugh (after all they're just 13), but I remember being 13 and having the world in my hands. I remember getting excited to talk to someone about my dreams and wishes, and how happy these daydreams and fantasies made me. There's this innocence you can only have at 13 and the world rises and falls and crashes and burns every year... until you do not think about quiet sunday afternoons.

So I asked her about the date and heard her giggle about bubblegum flavored ice cream, and how much she loves this little life. I think she makes me love it too.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

Libby Frame on Instagram

All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

“I want you to love yourself enough not to feed yourself dry sandwiches for dinner, or skip eating altogether. The way you feel about food sits hand to hand with the way you feel about yourself, and if you eat happily and wholeheartedly, food will make you strong. I want you to feel fine about the messiness of your illogical, impulsive appetite, and sometimes overeat, sometimes undereat, and still hold tight in your self-care.”

— Ruby Tandoh, from Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

idk who outside of science knows about this, but there is this page called arxiv.org which is an archive where scientific studies are uploaded

every year on the 1st of april, there are several joke papers uploaded, and they are always *chefs kiss*

these are a few from the astrophysics section, enjoy!

It'd be my fellow dearest introverted jijino that is miles away from me 😭

the introverted urge to find 1 person you feel comfortable with and do literally everything with them

“Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (rahimullah)

“Beware of preoccupying your heart with what it has not been created for”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (rahimullah)

This is your daily reminder to not be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.

Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that’s comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn’t understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don’t forget it… whatever you want and/or need

Don’t let anyone tell you how you should be doing things. We don’t need to prove each other anything

new kind of guy dropped

genuine self confidence literally only comes with not caring at all if you’re ugly... like if it’s based around finding yourself beautiful it’s planted on fragile ground

"ميراثك الحقيقي: أن تعلم أنك لستَ شيئًا بغير الله تعالى، وأن هذا الكون كله أضيقُ من ثقب إبرة على من لم يعرف الله."

“Saturday, November 30. Beautiful day! An accumulated lack of sleep caused me to pass out as soon as I got home yesterday, causing me to wake up this early. It’s cold. My body is craving salt. Feel like a bowl of miso soup. But… I’d better finish that bread I got two days ago. Miso soup or bread. Gotta pick one, since they don’t go together. Or do they? Maybe I can make miso soup… that goes with bread.” — Kitchen for Singles, Episode 3: Soy Milk Miso Soup in the Morning

“Saturday, November 30. Beautiful day! An accumulated lack of sleep caused me to pass out as soon as I got home yesterday, causing me to wake up this early. It’s cold. My body is craving salt. Feel like a bowl of miso soup. But… I’d better finish that bread I got two days ago. Miso soup or bread. Gotta pick one, since they don’t go together. Or do they? Maybe I can make miso soup… that goes with bread.” — Kitchen for Singles, Episode 3: Soy Milk Miso Soup in the Morning

Understanding Repentance

Imam Ibn Taymiyyah writes;

“Repentance is not only for committing sins as many ignorant people think; they do not envision repentance except for what the servant commits of offences, like indecencies and injustices.

Rather repentance for abandoning good deeds that we are commanded to do is more important than repentance for committing sins that we are forbidden from doing.”

[Jāmiʿ al-Rasā’il (1/228)]

Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened every day and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breath in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.

يا أبناء الآخرة؛ ثقوا بالآخرة..

لا تنتظروا من الحياة الدنيا استيفاءً للجزاء؛ على خيرٍ أصبتموه أو شرٍّ أُصبتم به، هذه دار نقصٍ كما عرَّفكموها ربُّكم؛ لا يوفَّى فيها مؤمنٌ مثوبته، ولا كافرٌ عقوبته، ما دون الجنة لا يكفي لأهلها ثوابًا "وَإِنَّمَا تُوَفَّوْنَ أُجُورَكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ"، وما دون النار لا يشفي في أهلها عقابًا "وَكَفَى بِجَهَنَّمَ سَعِيرًا".

- حمزة أبو زهرة.

قال صلى الله عليه وسلم يا شدَّادُ بنُ أوسٍ إذا رأيتَ النَّاسَ قد اكتنزوا الذَّهبَ والفضَّةَ؛ فاكنِز هؤلاء الكلماتِ :

اللَّهمَّ إنِّي أسألُك الثَّباتَ في الأمرِ ، والعزيمةَ على الرُّشدِ، وأسألُك موجِباتِ رحمتِك، وعزائمَ مغفرتِك، وأسألُك شُكرَ نعمتِك، وحُسنَ عبادتِك، وأسألُك قلبًا سليمًا، ولـسانًا صـادقًا، وأسـألُك من خيرِ مـا تعلَمُ، وأعـوذُ بـك من شرِّ ما تعلَمُ، وأستغفرُك لـمـا تعلَمُ؛ إنَّك أنت علَّامُ الغيوبِ.