— Celebrating Childhood, Adonis (translated By Khaled Mattawa)

العلم نور

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

“Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes.”

—

The Sehzade Mosque in Laleli, Istanbul (detail), c. 1915. Ludwig Hans Fischer

ek muddat se tirī yaad bhī aa.ī na hameñ,

aur ham bhuul ga.e hoñ tujhe aisā bhi nahīñ.

Firaq Gorakhpuri

If you really want it ,Tahajjud it.

Robert Goolrick, from The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

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?

‎Muadh Ibn Jabal رضي الله عنه said:

‎“The Son of Ādam does nothing to rescue himself from the punishment of Allah better than the remembrance of Allah.”

‎[Al-Muwatta, 490]