I Procrastinate Until It’s Not Even Procrastinating Anymore It’s Just Stupidity

“Why should that charming beauty, like the mid-day sun ablaze, Hide herself behind the veil, when none at her can gaze.”

जमाल-ए-दिल-फ़रोज़ — جمال دلفروز. Face whose beauty lights up the heart.

𝗠𝗶𝗿𝘇𝗮 𝗔𝘀𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗵 𝗕𝗮𝗶𝗴 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗻 (Ghalib) // 1797-1869

At this point, it's absurd to call Hamas anything but a resistance group that fights fair. We have seen thousands of videos and images of the idf killing, mocking, torturing and abusing Palestinian men, women and children in the most creative of ways. I have yet to see that from Hamas. Whoever condemns Hamas also condemns their right to self defence.

Hamas are made up mostly of orphans, orphaned by the hands of the idf. These people have every right to be angry, to resist living in an open air prison and being persecuted every day while the world sides with their oppressors. You'd be lying if you said you wouldn't be too, and yet they are not the ones indiscriminately killing civilians.

I'm tired of hearing 'I don't condone it but I can't blame them'. Stop beating around the bush and admit that you too would take up arms to defend yourself and your loved ones in the face of a brutal and unending occupation. Being passive doesn't bring about peace, it only allows ease in your destruction. Their rights, which were and have been taken by force for almost 80 years, can only be returned by force. That's a right none of us should speak against unless we're willingly giving up that right for ourselves.

And the foremost ˹in faith˺ will be the foremost ˹in Paradise˺. They are the ones nearest ˹to Allah˺, In the Gardens of Pleasure.

Surah Al Waqi'ah Ayah 10-14

العلم نور

Knowledge is light. Once internalised, we have a duty to shine it upon others.

‏تمادينا بالتفكير ونسينا بأن الأقدار مكتوبة

We went too far in thinking and forgot that destinies are written.

- Mahmoud Darwish

who are you when you are not watching tv or movies? when you aren't playing video games or reading a book or fanfiction or listening to music or whatever other kind of media that you engage with? who are you when your mind isn't in another world or story, when you are forced to sit with yourself and the only experience you have is your own sensorial life? can you define yourself outside of what you consume? who is that person? do you like them? can you bear it? can you bear it?