Shatteredinks-blog - Faani

"This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colonizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself."

— Frantz Fanon

— Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

[text ID: I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.]

We live in what-ifs & we die certainly

Yūsuf ibn al-Husayn ar-Rāzī said:

‎“The most difficult thing in the world is ikhlās. How I struggle to remove showing off from my heart and it is as if it grows in it again with other colours.”

‎[Jami' Al-'Ulum Wa'l-Hikam by Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali رحمه الله pg. 10]

You really are your worst enemy if you don’t have discipline

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

صُنع في فلسطين 🇵🇸

just me n my oversized clothes against the world