[arabswagger]

We leave our beautiful homelands because they have been ripped apart by strife only to find the same men who have enabled the horror in our countries to shoot us down after we found refuge in these lands.

No where is safe, there is not a place that we haven’t been martyred and hated. Our blood has been stained across continents.

Laa hawla wala qiwwat illah billah #ChapelHill

[ruinedchildhood]

[daxnorman]

[masturgr8]

My mom was driving me to the city yesterday and saw a Muslim and said something like “they’re invading our country” and I was like “no they’re just regular people like not every Muslim is with Isis it’s only a small group who is” and she goes “you just wait till you see American sniper. Then you’ll change your tune. You just wait” and if that’s not what the outcome of racist propaganda is then I don’t know what is

[harbharbia]

These three beautiful souls were taken tonight in result of a hate crime. Razan (raisin-inthesun ) , Yusor Abu-Salha and Deah Barakat. In the community they were well known and loved. Wallah they were all so incredibly sweet. Make sincere du3aa for them and their loved ones and for the community as a whole. إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ Remember that life is short and we should take every second and put it to use. They will always be in my heart and nothing but sincere du3aa should be made now. Allah yerhamhom you will be missed. :(

[bitchflowers2017-deactivated202]

Anger towards privileged groups is a result of years of oppression and hatred.

Anger towards minorities is supported by years of oppression and hatred.

That’s why hatred towards privileged groups is not the same as hatred towards minorities

[navk]

Three bodies lie, executed. How we deal with the killer depends on the last names of the deceased.

Nav K || “Chapel Hill: When is it considered terrorism when Muslims are killed at the hand of Americans?” (via navk)

[androphilia]

[squidkneee]

[fascinasians-blog]

Three Muslim students were killed tonight, with little to no media coverage.       Syrian American medical student Deah Barakat, his Palestinian American wife Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister Razan were shot and killed in a Chapel Hill condominium on February 10, 2015.

I’d link to an article but I have yet to find one that goes past 7 sentences.

[hareemm-deactivated20150701]

Additionally: no mention of terrorism, no breaking news headlines, and the most extensive coverage of this is Twitter, where muslims across the U.S. are rallying behind their cause as they come across it.

[limatha]

What kind of life is this that I regret telling people my ethnicity is Syrian when they ask me because I'm afraid of them judging me/ treating me differently/ thinking that I'm with Isis because I'm Syrian

[centuriespast]

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Japanese, 1839-1892 Masudaya Ginjiro, publisher Japanese Hayano [Kayano] Wasuke Fujiwara Tsuneshige, Portraits of true loyalty and chivalrous spirit, 1868.6 Polychrome woodblock print/RISD Museum

[mcgovern-wallawalla]

Terence Conran’s Decorating with Plants | Susan Conder © 1986

[partytilfajr]

Do you think there is ever a time where someone has gone too far and will never be forgiven by Allah? I've done some pretty horrible things in my past with knowledge, but carelessness. I'm not sure if Allah will ever forgive me.

No, as long as you air in your lungs it’s never too late to return to God.

The other day, I was listening to this scholar and he said something that I repeated in my khutbah a couple weeks ago, which I’m paraphrasing right now:

"We hear about drinking is haram, smoking is haram, but we never mention that doubting God’s Mercy is haram. It is haram to doubt God’s Mercy.”

The ayah he referred to is 7:156, where God says:

"[God] answered: ‘With My chastisement do I afflict whom I will - but My grace overspreads everything’"

Everything, the word that is used is “wasiat” which is underlining how wide and all-encompassing God’s Mercy is.

Let nothing hold you back from getting closer to your Lord, there is nothing He won’t forgive, for God says:

“Why would God cause you to suffer [for your past sins] if you are grateful and attain to belief - seeing that God is always responsive to gratitude, all-knowing?”

- The Holy Qur’an [4:147]

[maliara-deactivated20200409]

Fig and melon salad on Not Without Salt

[pinksyrope]

Street Art in Russia, making dilapidated look beautiful again.

[sixpenceee]

Though this image is associated with the title “A Drop of Seawater Magnified 25 times” this is not the case. It’s more so creatures  from a pretty big swathe of ocean, artificially brought together. (Source)

[subwaytiles]

Detail of Ghada Amer’s Hanging by a Thread