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Who is Allah?

Allah - The Greatest NameAr-Rahman - The All-MercifulAr-Rahim - The All-BeneficientAl-Malik - The Absolute RulerAl-Quddus - The Pure OneAs-Salam - The Source of PeaceAl-Mu’min - The Inspirer of FaithAl-Muhaymin - The GuardianAl-’Aziz - The VictoriousAl-Jabbar - The CompellerAl-Mutakabbir - The GreatestAl-Khaliq - The CreatorAl-Bari’ - The Maker of OrderAl-Musawwir - The Shaper of BeautyAl-Ghaffar - The ForgivingAl-Qahhar - The SubduerAl-Wahhab - The Giver of AllAr-Razzaq - The SustainerAl-Fattah - The OpenerAl-’Alim - The Knower of AllAl-Qabid - The ConstrictorAl-Basit - The RelieverAl-Khafid - The AbaserAr-Rafi’ - The ExalterAl-Mu’izz - The Bestower of HonorsAl-Mudhill - The HumiliatorAs-Sami - The Hearer of AllAl-Basir 27 - The Seer of AllAl-Hakam - The JudgeAl-’Adl - The JustAl-Latif - The Subtle OneAl-Khabir - The All-AwareAl-Halim - The ForebearingAl-’Azim - The MagnificentAl-Ghafur - The Forgiver and Hider of FaultsAsh-Shakur - The Rewarder of ThankfulnessAl-’Ali - The HighestAl-Kabir - The GreatestAl-Hafiz - The PreserverAl-Muqit - The NourisherAl-Hasib - The AccounterAl-Jalil - The MightyAl-Karim - The GenerousAr-Raqib - The Watchful OneAl-Mujib - The Responder to PrayerAl-Wasi’ - The All-ComprehendingAl-Hakim - The Perfectly WiseAl-Wadud - The Loving OneAl-Majíd - The Majestic OneAl-Ba’ith - The ResurrectorAsh-Shahid - The WitnessAl-Haqq - The TruthAl-Wakil - The TrusteeAl-Qawi - The Possessor of All StrengthAl-Matin - The Forceful OneAl-Wáli - The GovernorAl-Hamid - The Praised OneAl-Muhsi - The AppraiserAl-Mubdi - The OriginatorAl-Mu’id - The RestorerAl-Muhyi - The Giver of LifeAl-Mumit - The Taker of LifeAl-Hayy - The Ever Living OneAl-Qayyum - The Self-Existing OneAl-Wajid - The FinderAl-Májid - The GloriousAl-Wahid - The Only OneAl-Ahad - The OneAs-Samad - The Satisfier of All NeedsAl-Qadir - The All PowerfulAl-Muqtadir - The Creator of All PowerAl-Muqaddim - The ExpediterAl-Mu’akhkhir - The DelayerAl-Awwal - The FirstAl-Akhir - The LastAz-Zahir - The Manifest OneAl-Batin - The Hidden OneAl-Walí - The Protecting FriendAl-Muta’ali - The Supreme OneAl-Barr - The Doer of GoodAt-Tawwab - The Guide to RepentanceAl-Muntaqim - The AvengerAl-Afū - The ForgiverAr-Ra’uf - The ClementMalik al-Mulk - The Owner of All Dhul-JalaliWal-Ikram - The Lord of Majesty and BountyAl-Muqsit - The Equitable OneAl-Jami - The GathererAl-Ghani - The Rich OneAl-Mughni - The EnricherAl-Mani’ - The Preventer of HarmAd-Darr - The Creator of The HarmfulAn-Nafi - The Creator of GoodAn-Nur - The LightAl-Hadi - The GuideAl-Badi - The OriginatorAl-Baqi - The Everlasting OneAl-Warith - The Inheritor of AllAr-Rashid - The Righteous TeacherAs-Sabur - The Patient One

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(Verse 23 & 24)

[heartheraindrops---fall]

Al Mujeeb, the One who responds, hears my prayers even when I can’t find the words to say them.

Boonaa Mohammed (via heartheraindrops--fall)

[hijabstyleandfashion]

Listening to my #nativedeen cd in the car 😊 #naeemusic #nasheed 🎶 الله ☝️

[greatnesslieswithin-blog]

Arabs come in all shades

…stop only showing the European looking ones as the quintessential Arabs. Black and dark skinned Arabs are no less Arab than others. Most of my family members have dark skin and I hate when they emphasize having lighter skin or straight hair. It’s poison for the mind and heart. We are all beautiful.

[beholdenjohanna-deactivated2016]

People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that. Well, I hope, for the sake of God, that I have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don’t change. Dead things don’t change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing and its knowledge should be expanding.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (via beholdenjohanna)

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I am merely holding up a mirror to our society-- that through orientalism, greed, and white supremacy can’t seem to see what I see, like the millions deceased in the crusade for democracy, neoliberalism, and globalized fallacies-- a capitalist’s holy trinity.   Hypocrisy in the way terror is defined; as though mothers and children traumatized by Shock and Awe don’t fear for their lives that will never be the same no matter how hard they try. Collateral damage is savagery in disguise, while CNN and Fox news dresses up atrocities in lies, cause if a drone drops in a remote village but it doesn’t reach any of our ears, does it still produce tears?

Shock and Awe

[honeyandelixir]

Breaking the rhythm every now and then is a rhythmic necessity

Mahmoud Darwish

@moon-faced-lover :)

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Zanzibar’s taraab legend Bi Kidude with her youngest fans: the children of the neighborhood.

[greatnesslieswithin-blog]

you could catch me floating on the silence self-reliance and defiance: these quiet dreams are piously unfolding life by the seams, coursing through these streams that flow like poetry; i know it, i believe that blurry lines of resurrection and being deceased will breathe a genesis of giza’s residence, mislabelled in the present tense– it’s quite evident we live in the intermission to melodies so persistent in reclaiming our existence in the midst of colonized knowledge and commodified traditions, questioning the dimensions and prisms used to categorize and limit our rise, but look in our eyes and you’ll see the shifting global tide..

me

[theamanitribe]

Saturday making Mandazi. Recipe at [www.theamanitribe.com] this coming week. #mandazi #kenya #eastafrica #africanfood

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Kwenye nia kuna njia

saying

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Take me to a rhyme..

Life distilled by the thrill and play of being gone tomorrow, but here today; led astray and stuck in a daze, hoping for the sun rays to raise up my spirit and remind me of a simpler time where there was still complexity, but it was entwined with the best of poets’ rhymes; from the architect of life, fashioning with words and signs, symbols like time but of different lifeline, not the type that holds tyranny over our minds— take me to a rhyme of a more fruitful kind. please take me to a line where I will truly understand the depth of our design and wash my countenance with what nature has implied. free me from the binaries, the confinement of categorization and classification, fixating these thoughts to a worldly placement, stationed in liminality erased from capability and humanity— take me to a rhyme of a more fruitful kind, a rhyme of multiple syllables able to blur the material and metaphysical, the metaphoric and literal, and all that’s in between, without, behind the scenes, unspoken and unseen. Make me the nuance of body language, the subtlety of silent expression, the sincerity of a lost being praying to find a destination with innumerable meanings.

[greatnesslieswithin-blog]

Anyone know if Hanna (used to be GorgeousMuslimah) made a new tumblr? And/or have her contact info? Lmk! I’ve been meaning to speak to her since she deactivated..

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i pray i never sympathize

globalized illusions; pay for a new heart with petro-dollars, organs trafficked brains sold to the devil, our souls in shambles, limbs devoted to a pop culture of the technologic savage, civilized murderers in the orchestra we call international community; we’re all hostages and prisoners of war to an unequal power dynamic of constructed scarcity and forced competition, mental and for-profit prisons; they say don’t worry the neoliberal prophet has arisen preaching pseudo-humanitarianism - all like the static noise clouding my prism, mental health labelled collateral damage to the system so i’m searching for spiritual meaning in the midst colonized knowledge and commodified traditions where the stereotypes are more like an edifice staring back at me, of western institutions, structurized and industrialized double-sized for younger eyes i really wonder why they’re not troubled by their suicide and out homicide, stomaching pesticides 20-20 blind, bearing false witness to living but have died…

i pray i never sympathize i pray i never sympathize