Zainab Cobbold (Lady Evelyn Murray) Was A Scottish Muslim Diarist, Traveller And Noblewoman Who Was Known

I don't know who needs to hear this out but; please, please don't give up on your deen. It doesn't matter how many sins you have done or for how long, just come back. Start again, try again, pray again, cry, yearn, JUST DON'T GIVE UP.

“Read to me”

“why?”

“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you.”

- Alex light , The Upside of Falling.

Seven Qualities that Allah Loves…

1. Tawbah (Repentance)… “For Allah loves those who turn to Him constantly (in repentance)” [Surah Al Baqarah 2:222]

2. Taharah (Purification)… “Allah loves those who keep themselves pure and clean.” [Surah Al Baqarah 2:222]

3. Taqwa (Piety)… “For Allah loves the righteous (the pious).” [Surah Al Tawbah 9:4]

4. Ihsan (Goodness & Perfection)… “For Allah loves those who do good” [Surah Ali ‘Imran 3:134]

5. Tawakkul (Trust in Allah)… “For Allah loves those who put their trust (in Him).” [Surah Ali ‘Imran 3:159]

6. Adl (Justice)… “For Allah loves those who judge in equity.” [Surah Al Ma'idah 5:42] “For Allah loves those who are fair (and just).” [Surah Al Hujurat 49:9]

7. Sabr (Patience)… “And Allah Loves those who are firm and steadfast (As-Sabirin (the patient)).” [Surah Ale Imran 3:146]

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.

اب ترا ذکر بھی شاید ہی غزل میں آئے

اور سے اور ہوئے درد کے عنواں جاناں

ہم کہ روٹھی ہوئی رت کو بھی منا لیتے تھے

ہم نے دیکھا ہی نہ تھا موسم ہجراں جاناں

ہوش آیا تو سبھی خواب تھے ریزہ ریزہ

جیسے اڑتے ہوئے اوراق پریشاں جاناں🥀

May your imaan never leave you, may you always tread on the straight path with righteousness. May you be saved from the torment of the grave & from the punishment of the fire, may you be of the blessed residents of al-Firdaws, ameen ya rabb-il-'alameen.

“Oh Abu Dharr! Don’t look at the smallness of the sin but look at the One you disobeyed.”

— Prophet Muhammad (S)’s advice to Abu Dharr al-Ghaffari [ Makarim al Akhlaq, Chapter 12, Section 5, Page 458]

— Celebrating Childhood, Adonis (translated by Khaled Mattawa)

[text ID: My wishes are flowers / staining my days.]