Notes

Rants from an Art enthusiast and a Science advocate

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As-salām ‘alaykum wa raḥmatu’llāh wa barakātuhu dear friends, teachers, and family:

With the last nights of Ramaḍān now upon us, we have entered into the last stretch in a marathon of supplications, meditation, contemplation, and solitude with Allāh ﷻ.

I want to share this gift with you: a gift for those moments of intimacy when you are “alone with the Alone”. It is in fact two prayers taught to me by my teacher, which have reached us from Shaykh Aḥmad al-Tijānī, by way of his dear disciple, Shaykh Ibrāhīm Riyāḥī al-Tūnisī, may Allāh ﷻ bless and be pleased with them.

It is a prayer for all needs (istishāra), a means of completely confiding ourselves in Allāh ﷻ and His Messenger ﷺ.

Allāh ﷻ knows the struggles and needs that each one of us faces, whether we are seeking worldly or spiritual provision and well-being. He understands our needs and frustrations, our shortcomings, weaknesses, emotions and desires.

Only Allāh ﷻ saves us from ourselves. If He can save us from Hellfire, He can save us from any fire less than that, as well. I think Rumi once said, “We have been bombarded from all six directions… so that we may take refuge in the Directionless.”

Please see the PDF attachment for the prayer, which you may freely share with anyone dear to you who will benefit.

Additionally, please listen to this recitation of the Salutation of the Opener (Ṣalāt al-fātiḥ) by our grand-shaykh, the late Imām Ḥassan Cissé, on YouTube. You can read about the prayer in the video details.

Please do remember me and my family in your prayers.

—Naba Choudhury (Ottawa, Canada)

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Pascal Meunier

*Ramadan Mubarak everyone…

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[kieraplease]

I just want to personally thank all the flowers out there that allowed us to stick you in our hair, yall are the real MVPs // ig: kieraplease

[pearly0pal]

Chief qualities a Muslim should display.

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[voilalasunshiine]

Voilalasunshiine.tumblr.com Sarah Golish’s x “MOONDUST” series —Released 1•25•2014.

[gosh]

What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.

Chester Bennington (via aestheticintrovert)

[boredpanda]

15+ Of The World’s Most Magical Streets Shaded By Flowers And Trees

[danaskylah-deactivated20150801]

Last one is brisbane!! woo

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(x)

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This!!!

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[notanothergayteen-deactivated20]

Where is this from?

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Higher Learning

[alwaysbewoke]

Always reblog

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dappertomboy:

Babes in Velvet

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In solidarity with the demonstrations for #EricGarner #WhiteCoatsforBlackLives #BlacklivesMatter #WeCantBreathe #UICCOM #UIC

[errrbecca]

The misuse of Sufi poetry is symptomatic of modern culture’s combination of materialism with self-spirituality. The theme that runs through the New Age movement is about experiencing the “Self” because it is the way to experience the “God” or “Goddess” within. As noted by Peter Pels in his 1998 article “Religion, Consumerism and the Modernity of the New Age”, the New Age emphasis on self-spirituality is rooted in late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century occultism. It is a detraditionalised form of faith that internalises religiosity, turning an individual’s reliance to be on “inner voices”, and in turn rejecting any outside authority. The Self reigns supreme in place of anything external to it. It is therefore ironic that religious Sufi symbolism, which was used to express annihilation of the Self in the presence of the Divine, is now being used to express the elation of the Self in the presence of another’s. [A]s many Sufi poets and saints have warned, their poetry begins at the metaphoric level to indicate literal meanings other than what first comes to mind, all of which revolve around the Divine.

mohamed ghilan, what was rumi talking about?

a good thing to do after reading this is to look at the tags on the goodreads page for rumi

(via errrbecca)

[vintage-sudan]

MALCOM X + SHEIKH AHMAD HASSOUN, SUDAN (1959)

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