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[1five1two]

Gisela Delpho.

[xphaiea]

bark beetle patterns

[al-islam-deactivated20250731]

اللهم إني اسألك أن تستر علي، وتُهذِّب قلبي، وتؤدّب طَبعَي، وتحسّن خُلُقي، وتضبط سلوكي، واسألك أن تشغلني بغاياتٍ تليقُ بدربك، وترزقني حكمة القول، وفَنّ الصّمت، وبلاغة الرَّدّ، وجَلال الحُضور، وجمال الغياب.

Ya Allah, I ask You to cover me, to refine my heart, to discipline my nature, to improve my character, to regulate my behavior, and I ask You to occupy me with goals that are worthy of Your path, to bless me with wisdom in speech, the art of silence, eloquence in response, majesty in presence, and grace in absence.

[rose1water]

[rose1water]

My Lord, I have betrayed my own soul. I have wasted my youth drowning in the sleep of negligence and ignorance. However my knowledge of Your enduring Generosity has brought to me to Your door, hopeful and assured of Your welcome. Surely, had You wanted to humiliate me, You would not have guided me to You; Had You wanted to reject me, You would not have inspired me to recite this whispered prayer to You; Had You wanted to disgrace me, You would not have protected my dignity by hiding my shameful deeds from others; Had You wanted to forsake me, You would not have awakened within me to Your ever-present Love Certainly, one who seeks Your shelter shall never be left abandoned! One who recognises You shall never be lonely! one who turns towards You hopeful will never be left disappointed!

— Munājāt Sha’bāniyya, مناجات شعبانیه

[its-hobohere]

Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen said:

“If you see yourself deteriorate, pick yourself up by repenting and seeking Allāh’s forgiveness and by asking Him to keep you firm.

And do not become careless, and neither say: “InshaAllaah, my eeman will become stronger.” (without doing anything about it).

Instead from right now, from the moment you feel that you are ill - you must implement the cure.”

[Tafsir Surah an-Nisaa | V. 2, Pg. 53]

[pastart]

Gareth Llewellyn (2022)

[mutant-distraction]

photographer Zsolt Ku

egret

[apilgrimsprogress]

We are called to love the world as God loves the world. Loving this deeply, this openly, will break our hearts. When our hearts are broken wide-open, if we are willing to remain anchored in love, we find our capacity to love magnified. It is a cycle of life and brokenness and life renewed perpetually. Our calling is nothing less than this.

Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

[paolo-streito-1264]

Mexican actress Rocio Sagaón in a rehearsal for the ballet “El Vuelo Del Alma” (1950).

[conflictingheart]

[rose1water]

There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see, but there is some. There’s more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that’s a betrayal of many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that’s enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no one’s ever wanted really to be free. The world is held together, really it is, held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you’ve got to remember is that what you’re looking at is also you. Everyone you’re looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be. [...] The logic of despair isn’t for me. Anyway, it’s too easy, it’s too fashionable. I’m aware that I and the people I love may perish in the morning. I know that. But there’s light on our faces now.

 — James Baldwin, Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

[rose1water]

A kind deed you do for another is kindness done towards yourself, for in this act of kindness you are beautifying your own honour. So do not seek thanks for what you have done but rather give thanks for what they have given you opportunity to do.

— Imam Ali (as)

[soracities]

Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (trans. Ibrahim Muhawi) [ID'd]

on context: "[set during] the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut [...] Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?" (source)

[pasdetrois]

- William E. Stafford, “A Ritual to Read to Each Other”

[frommydiary]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

“Anger is like a lion; if it's owner sets it free it will eat him. Desire is like a fire; if it's owner starts it, it will burn him.

Pride is like fighting against a king to take his Kingdom, if it does not destroy you it will expel you, and envy is like showing enmity to one who is more powerful than you.

Whoever overcomes his desire and anger, Satan will depart from him, and whoever's desire and anger beat him, Satan will stick to him.”

[al-Fawā’id | Pg. 267]

[julaibib]